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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xxi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1776, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. This book argues that the two were intimately connected, examining how people created, combated, avoided, and denied the virulent disease environment; and how disease and human responses to it influenced the region, the South, and the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easily Georgia's most visible symbol. Yet Prunus persica itself is surprisingly rare in Georgia, and it has never played a major part in the southern agricultural economy. Why, then, have southerners - and Georgians in particular - clung to the fruit? 'The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the era between the world wars, wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen created more than seventy large estates in the coastal region of South Carolina. By retaining select features from earlier periods and adding new buildings and landscapes, wealthy sporting enthusiasts created a new type of plantation. In the process, they changed the meaning of the word 'plantation', with profound implications for historical memory of slavery and contemporary views...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The basis for this book began twenty years ago when I enrolled in the College of Charleston's summer archaeological field school. After spending the first half of the semester honing our technique by digging five-foot by five-foot units, identifying soil stratigraphy, and collecting artifacts at the Charleston Museum's Stono Plantation, the archaeologists reoriented us students to a new site. For the remainder of the field school we investigated...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the Revolution to the Civil War, white Americans entertained the strangest of notions: their black compatriots, who comprised one-fifth of the population in 1770 and one-seventh by 1860, could, would, and should leave the United States for some other land. Stranger yet, the same blacks whom whites thought too degraded to ever form part of the American nation would civilize other peoples, thanks, ironically, to the American influences that they...
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