This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, Coclanis's study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effects of various factors--the environment, the market, economic and political ideology, and social institutions--on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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"Coclanis has mastered an impressive array of primary and secondary sources....He presents his findings in clear, graceful prose...and proves adept at literary allusions as well as statistical presentation. He masterfully summarizes complex economic theories and historiographical debates, and his own argument is forcefully presented and rigorously defended."--Reviews in American History
"This engaging work is a must for scholars concerned about the economic history of colonial South Carolina or interested in economic development theory and its relationship to the rise and fall of a particular society....His approach is comparative and interdisciplinary; his command of the literature, historical and theoretical, is extraordinary....This is clearly a professional job done for professionals."--Journal of the Early Republic
"A compelling story of the tragic rise and fall of the rice economy of the South Carolina low country....Coclanis has opened the door to scholarly debate at the same time that he clarifies an important set of historical issues. His book, then, represents an exemplary effort to bring cliometric analysis in to the mainstream of historical discourse."--American Historical Review
"A wide-ranging examination of the forces that led to South Carolina'a economic growth and decline."--Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
"The prose, which is richly allusive, elaborates a precisely constructed, elegantly symmetrical argument set in a global perspective....A brilliant and disturbing book. In scope and style it deserves to stand with some of the works of the justly famous Annales school of French historians."--South Carolina Historical Magazine
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Peter A. Coclanis is at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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northern temperate zone, white inventoried decedents, white hegemonists, total nonhuman wealth, free capita, mean total wealth, mean personal wealth, total personal wealth, economic demise, proprietary policy, plantation staples, dis body, rice industry, clean rice, economic rise, capita exports Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, New York, United States, Civil War, Dream Table, British North America, Old World, Charleston District, New World, New England, Senate Executive Documents, Middle Colonies, The Carolina Venture, American Revolution, Economic Context, East Indian, Alice Hanson Jones, First Session, Plantation South, Great Britain, Acres Granted Per, Lower Burma, John's Berkeley Parish, South Carolinians, Second Session Browse Sample Pages:
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northern temperate zone, white inventoried decedents, white hegemonists, total nonhuman wealth, free capita, mean total wealth, mean personal wealth, total personal wealth, economic demise, proprietary policy, plantation staples, dis body, rice industry, clean rice, economic rise, capita exports Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, New York, United States, Civil War, Dream Table, British North America, Old World, Charleston District, New World, New England, Senate Executive Documents, Middle Colonies, The Carolina Venture, American Revolution, Economic Context, East Indian, Alice Hanson Jones, First Session, Plantation South, Great Britain, Acres Granted Per, Lower Burma, John's Berkeley Parish, South Carolinians, Second Session Browse Sample Pages:
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- Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country by Stephanie McCurry on 7 pages
- An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Joyce E. Chaplin on 6 pages
- A Companion to the American South (Blackwell Companions to American History) by John B. Boles on 4 pages
- Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Philip D. Morgan on page 33, page 147, and page 381
- Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era by Peter McCandless in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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