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A new world gentry : the making of a merchant and planter class in South Carolina, 1670-1770
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HT653.U6 W38 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 190 pages : illustrations, 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
- To 1799
- Geschichte 1670-1770
- 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
- Economic history
- Gentry
- Merchants
- Plantation owners
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- Upper class
- Upper class > South Carolina > History
- Gesellschaft
- Kaufmann
- Plantagenbesitzer
- Interessen-Verband
- South Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- South Carolina > Social conditions
- South Carolina > Economic conditions
- South Carolina > Politics and government > To 1775
- South Carolina
- United States, South Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- United States, South Carolina > Social life and customs
- United States, South Carolina > Politics and government > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- South Carolina
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
- 9781596290402
- LCCN
- 2005016593
- OCLC
- ocm60644710
- 60644710
- SCSB-9101186
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library