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A new world gentry : the making of a merchant and planter class in South Carolina, 1670-1770 / Richard Waterhouse ; foreword by Charles Joyner.

Title
A new world gentry : the making of a merchant and planter class in South Carolina, 1670-1770 / Richard Waterhouse ; foreword by Charles Joyner.
Author
Waterhouse, Richard.
Publication
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2005.

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190 p. ill., maps; 25 cm.
Summary
The history of colonial South Carolina has been the subject of critical academic study for over four decades. While historians continue to revise and examine their understanding of this period in South Carolina's history, it is understood that the cultural life of the elite planter and merchant classes was not solely the product of European influences, but also those brought to the New World by African slaves and the dynamic relationship between the two classes. It was during the colonial period that many of the state's cultural and economic patterns that were to direct the state through the eighteenth century and into the antebellum period were set in place. In A New World Gentry, Richard Waterhouse examines the early history of South Carolina's development, closely following the establishment and economic growth of the colony in correlation with the cultural development of the elite planter and merchant classes.
Subject
  • 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
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-185) and index.
Contents
Genesis : England, the Caribbean, and the settlement of Carolina -- Beginnings : establishing a colony -- Prospering : economic growth and wealth distribution -- Anglicization : cultural life in pre-revolutionary Charles Town -- Politics I : how local government was structured and functioned -- Politics II : how the assembly was structured and functioned, 1721-1776.
ISBN
1596290404 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005016593
OCLC
60644710
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library