An Anxious Pursuit
Subtitle: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 14, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780807846131
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; History of engineering & technology; Rural communities; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - State & Local - South; Agricultural History; U.S. Local History - Southern States; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - State & Local - General; Enlightenment; South; South Carolina; Georgia; Florida; agriculture;; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
First sentence: In 1768, Frederick George Mulcaster, a young Scottish planter in East Florida, described to a correspondent the most important attributes of the new British settlement at an early stage in its English-speaking history.