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



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Autore: Wilson Thomas D. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Ashley Cooper plan : the founding of Carolina and the origins of Southern political culture / / Thomas D. Wilson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina: 306.20975
Soggetto topico: Political culture - Southern States - History
City planning - Southern States - History
Cities and towns - Southern States
Soggetto geografico: 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
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"--
Titolo autorizzato: The Ashley Cooper plan  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908483-4-5
1-4696-2629-2
1-4696-2630-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827867903321
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