Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
Entry/Object ID
2010.004.04
Description
Challenges the popular image of the pre-Revolutionary south as a society completely shaped by staple agriculture and places Charleston at the heart of a transatlantic process of urban development.
Contents: "To plant in towns": Charles Towne at the founding of Carolina -- "A floating market": commercial growth, urban growth -- "Stupendous works": building urban dynamism into the Low Country -- Urban households, economic opportunity, and social structure -- Criminal pleasures and charitable deeds: town and culture -- "A very essential service to this community": the politics of the town.
xii, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Library
Acquisition
Accession
2010.004.
Source or Donor
New Library Books Purchased (2010)
Acquisition Method
Purchased
Credit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund Purchase
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
Communities, classes, races, Urban groups, cities, urban sociology, City planning--South Carolina--Charleston--History, City and town life--South Carolina--Charleston--History--18th century, Charleston (S.C.)--Economic conditions--18th century, Charleston (S.C.)--Social conditions--18th century, Charleston (S.C.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Book Details
Author
Hart, Emma, 1972-
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Place Published
Location
Charlottesville, VA
Date Published
2010
Call No.
HT168 .C453 H37 2010
ISBN
9780813928678
LCCN
2009022222
Notes
Copy No.: 1
Location
Location
Building
Missroon Library
Category
Permanent
Date
February 7, 2023
Location
Building
Checked Out
Moved By
Katherine Saunders
Date
January 8, 2013
Location
Building
Checked Out
Moved By
Winslow
Date
September 27, 2010
Notes
Notes: Winslow
Relationships
Related Entries
Notes
2010.002.020
General Notes
Note
Notes: By Emma Hart.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
