Building Charleston
Subtitle: town and society in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world
By: Emma Hart.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813928678; 9780813928692
Subjects: City planning -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History; Charleston (S.C.) -- Economic conditions; Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "To plant in towns" : Charles Towne at the founding of Carolina; title: "A floating market" : commercial growth, urban growth; title: "Stupendous works" : building urban dynamism into the Low country; title: Urban households, economic opportunity, and social structure; title: Criminal pleasures and charitable deeds : town and culture; title: "A very essential service to this community" : the politics of the town.