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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795907903321

Autore

Wilson Thomas D.

Titolo

The Ashley Cooper plan : the founding of Carolina and the origins of Southern political culture / / Thomas D. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

979-88-908483-4-5

1-4696-2629-2

1-4696-2630-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

306.20975

Soggetti

Political culture - Southern States - History

City planning - Southern States - History

Cities and towns - Southern States

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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



paradoxes of American history: although the Ashley Cooper Plan was a model of rational planning, its utopian qualities were soon undermined by the lure of profits to be had from slaveholding. Wilson argues that the "Gothic" framework of the Carolina "Fundamental Constitutions" was stripped of its original imperative of class reciprocity in the transition to slavery, which reverberates in American politics to this day"--