The colonial search for a southern Eden / / by Louis B. Wright

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819273403321
• Autore: Wright Louis B (Louis Booker), <1899-1984.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-8173-8236-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (75 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.975/02
• Soggetti: Southern States Economic conditions 17th century; Great Britain Colonies America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Three lectures delivered at the Dancy Foundation, Alabama College, Apr. 29-May 1, 1951.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Contents; 1. The Elizabthe Dream of Wealth; 2. Imperial Prosperity from Southern Plantations; 3. Eden and Utopia South of Virginia; Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World Louis Booker Wright was a graduate of Wofford College, and was at various times a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a Benjamin Franklin Medalist, and he held honorary degrees from, among others, Princeton, Tulane, and California State University-Fulerton. He was the author of a number of books, including The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763, Gold, Glory, and the Gospel: the Adventurous Lives of the Renaissance Explorers, Culture on the Mov