A new world gentry
Subtitle: the making of a merchant and planter class in South Carolina, 1670-1770
By: Richard Waterhouse.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Upper class -- South Carolina -- History -- 17th century; Upper class -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; Gentry -- South Carolina -- History -- 17th century; Gentry -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; Plantation owners -- South Carolina -- History; Merchants -- South Carolina -- History; South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; South Carolina -- Social conditions; South Carolina -- Economic conditions; South Carolina -- Politics and government -- To 1775
Table of contents: title: Genesis : England, the Caribbean, and the settlement of Carolina; title: Beginnings : establishing a colony; title: Prospering : economic growth and wealth distribution; title: Anglicization : cultural life in pre-revolutionary Charles Town; title: Politics I : how local government was structured and functioned; title: Politics II : how the assembly was structured and functioned, 1721-1776.