An anxious pursuit : agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower South, 1730-1815 / / Joyce E. Chaplin
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| Autore: |
Chaplin Joyce E.
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| Titolo: |
An anxious pursuit : agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower South, 1730-1815 / / Joyce E. Chaplin
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1993 |
| ©1993 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (430 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 975/.02 |
| Soggetto topico: | Agriculture - Southern States - History |
| Slavery - Southern States - History | |
| Plantation life - Southern States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southern States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
| Southern States History 1775-1865 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Development of a Plantation Region; ONE: CONSIDERING MODERNΙΤΥ; Chapter 2. The Fate of Progress in the Early Lower South; The Idea of Material Progress; Local Discussion; Slavery, Sentiment, and Stasis; Chapter 3. Being Exotic; Species of Eternity; Travelers' Accounts-Science and Fiction; Chapter 4. The Local Work Ethic; Fevers and Strangers; Duties and Improvements; Work and Slavery: A Problem; Social Mobility; Chapter 5. Projects and Power; Patrons of the Exotic; The Case of Silk |
| The Upcountry RespondsTWO: REALIZING MODERNΙΤΥ; Chapter 6. Crisis and Response: Indigo and Cotton; An Imperial Blue; A Patriotic Fiber; The Luxury Staple; Chapter 7. Crisis and Response: Tidal Rice Cultivation; Rivers; Mills; Power; Chapter 8. Creating a Cotton South; The Geography of Opportunity; The Gin; Slavery; Chapter 9. Factories and Fields; Domestic Diversification; Final Crisis; Epilogue: Slavery, Progress, and the ""Federo-national"" Union; Statistical Method; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | An anxious pursuit |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908647-7-2 |
| 0-8078-3830-6 | |
| 1-4696-0051-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910829065603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia