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UNINA9910467050003321 |
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Wilson Thomas D. |
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Titolo |
The Ashley Cooper plan : the founding of Carolina and the origins of Southern political culture / / Thomas D. Wilson |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-2629-2 |
1-4696-2630-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political culture - Southern States - History |
City planning - Southern States - History |
Cities and towns - Southern States |
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South Carolina History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
North Carolina History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
Southern States Politics and government To 1775 |
Southern States Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prologue: America: a blank slate for English utopianism -- Carolina: the first planned colony -- The Carolina grand model -- The grand model and frontier reality -- The grand model and the genesis of Southern political culture -- The grand model and the American city -- Epilogue: political culture and the future of the city. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"In The Ashley Cooper Plan, Thomas Wilson connects Anthony Ashley Cooper (the First Earl of Shaftesbury) and John Locke's seventeenth-century vision of well-ordered society to the design of cities in the Province of Carolina to current debates about the relationship about climate change, sustainable development, urbanity, and the place of expertise in general. This important work focuses on the ways in which political culture, ideology, and governing structures have shaped political acts and public policy and illuminates one of the fundamental |
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