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Author |
: Kenneth E. Lewis |
Publisher |
: Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 668 |
Release |
: 2017-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611177459 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611177456 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Carolina Backcountry Venture by : Kenneth E. Lewis
A study of the transformative economic and social processes that changed a backcountry Southern outpost into a vital crossroads The Carolina Backcountry Venture is a historical, geographical, and archaeological investigation of the development of Camden, South Carolina, and the Wateree River Valley during the second half of the eighteenth century. The result of extensive field and archival work by author Kenneth E. Lewis, this publication examines the economic and social processes responsible for change and documents the importance of those individuals who played significant roles in determining the success of colonization and the form it took. Established to serve the frontier settlements, the store at Pine Tree Hill soon became an important crossroads in the economy of South Carolina's central backcountry and a focus of trade that linked colonists with one another and the region's native inhabitants. Renamed Camden in 1768, the town grew as the backcountry became enmeshed in the larger commercial economy. As pioneer merchants took advantage of improvements in agriculture and transportation and responded to larger global events such as the American Revolution, Camden evolved with the introduction of short staple cotton, which came to dominate its economy as slavery did its society. Camden's development as a small inland city made it an icon for progress and entrepreneurship. Camden was the focus of expansion in the Wateree Valley, and its early residents were instrumental in creating the backcountry economy. In the absence of effective, larger economic and political institutions, Joseph Kershaw and his associates created a regional economy by forging networks that linked the immigrant population and incorporated the native Catawba people. Their efforts formed the structure of a colonial society and economy in the interior and facilitated the backcountry's incorporation into the commercial Atlantic world. This transition laid the groundwork for the antebellum plantation economy. Lewis references an array of primary and secondary sources as well as archaeological evidence from four decades of research in Camden and surrounding locations. The Carolina Backcountry Venture examines the broad processes involved in settling the area and explores the relationship between the region's historical development and the landscape it created.
Author |
: Charles Woodmason |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2013-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469600024 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469600021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution by : Charles Woodmason
In what is probably the fullest and most vivid extant account of the American Colonial frontier, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution gives shape to the daily life, thoughts, hopes, and fears of the frontier people. It is set forth by one of the most extraordinary men who ever sought out the wilderness--Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister whose moral earnestness and savage indignation, combined with a vehement style, make him worthy of comparison with Swift. The book consists of his journal, selections from the sermons he preached to his Backcountry congregations, and the letters he wrote to influential people in Charleston and England describing life on the frontier and arguing the cause of the frontier people. Woodmason's pleas are fervent and moving; his narrative and descriptive style is colorful to a degree attained by few writers in Colonial America.
Author |
: Charles Woodmason |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 1953 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:632273786 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution by : Charles Woodmason
Author |
: Charles WOODMASON |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 1953 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:504877569 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution. The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant. Edited with an Introduction by Richard J. Hooker by : Charles WOODMASON
Author |
: Emma Hart |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2024-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226833279 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226833275 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trading Spaces by : Emma Hart
When we talk about the economy, “the market” is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain’s colonization of North America was a key moment in the market’s shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy. Hart’s book takes in the shops, auction sites, wharves, taverns, fairs, and homes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America—places where new mechanisms and conventions of trade arose as Europeans re-created or adapted continental methods to new surroundings. Since those earlier conventions tended to rely on regulation more than their colonial offspring did, what emerged in early America was a less-fettered brand of capitalism. By the nineteenth century, this had evolved into a market economy that would not look too foreign to contemporary Americans. To tell this complex transnational story of how our markets came to be, Hart looks back farther than most historians of US capitalism, rooting these markets in the norms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Perhaps most important, this is not a story of specific commodity markets over time but rather is a history of the trading spaces themselves: the physical sites in which the grubby work of commerce occurred and where the market itself was born.
Author |
: Elizabeth Connor |
Publisher |
: Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2024-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781643364728 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1643364723 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Santee Canal by : Elizabeth Connor
A history of one of America's earliest canals and its impact on the people of the South Carolina Lowcountry Completed in 1800, the Santee Canal provided the first inland navigation route from the Upcountry of the South Carolina Piedmont to the port of Charleston and the Atlantic Ocean. By connecting the Cooper, Santee, Congaree, and Wateree rivers, the engineered waterway transformed the lives of many in the state and affected economic development in the Southeast region of the newly formed United States. In The Santee Canal, authors Elizabeth Connor, Richard Dwight Porcher Jr., and William Robert Judd provide an authoritative and richly illustrated history of one of America's first canals. Connor, Porcher, and Judd tell a comprehensive story of the canal's origins and history. Never-before published historical plans and maps, photographs from personal archives and field research, and technical drawings enhance the text, allowing readers to appreciate the development, evolution, and effect of the Santee Canal on the land and the people of South Carolina.
Author |
: Charles Woodsman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1953 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1103593081 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Carolina Backcountry on the Eye of the Revolution by : Charles Woodsman
Author |
: John Lawson |
Publisher |
: CreateSpace |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2014-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1495341607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781495341601 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New Voyage to Carolina by : John Lawson
John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies. An inclusive account of the manners and customs of the Indian tribes of that day, it is also a minute report of the soil, climate, trees, plants, animals, and fish in the Carolinas. Lawson's observation is keen and thorough; his style direct and vivid. He misses nothing and recounts all—from the storms at sea to his impressions of New York in 1700, the trip down the coast to Charleston, and his travels from there into North Carolina with his Indian guides.
Author |
: Peter Charles Hoffer |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 612 |
Release |
: 2023-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421445427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421445425 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Brave New World by : Peter Charles Hoffer
"A history of early America that is continental in scope, inclusive in content, and intriguing in thematic argument, this course book describes the building of the nation and the daily lives of its people up to 1776. The author's main effort in revising the book for its third edition was to expand the geographical scope of the book"--
Author |
: Benjamin L. Carp |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2023-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300246957 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300246951 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great New York Fire of 1776 by : Benjamin L. Carp
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War? New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after the Crown's forces took New York City, much of it mysteriously burned to the ground. This is the first book to fully explore the Great Fire of 1776 and why its origins remained a mystery even after the British investigated it in 1776 and 1783. Uncovering stories of espionage, terror, and radicalism, Benjamin L. Carp paints a vivid picture of the chaos, passions, and unresolved tragedies that define a historical moment we usually associate with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."