Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674023031
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Economic History; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History - U.S; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; History; United States - Colonial Period; History: American; South Carolina; United States - State & Local - South; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); Environmental conditions; 17th century; 18th century; Plantation life; Rice farmers; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Description: "This scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols - the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry." "With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made the Carolina Lowcountry one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world."--BOOK JACKET.