The Ashley Cooper Plan: The Founding of Carolina and the Origins of Southern Political Culture
Entry/Object ID
2016.004.1
Description
Connects Anthony Ashley Cooper (the First Earl of Shaftesbury) and John Locke's 17th-century vision of well-ordered society to the design of cities in the Province of Carolina to current debates about the relationship about climate change, sustainable development, urbanity, and the place of expertise in general. Focuses on the ways in which political culture, ideology, and governing structures have shaped political acts and public policy and illuminates one of the fundamental paradoxes of American history: although the Ashley Cooper Plan was a model of rational planning, its utopian qualities were soon undermined by the lure of profits to be had from slaveholding.
Contents: Prologue (America: a blank slate for English utopianism) -- Carolina: the first planned colony -- The Carolina grand model -- The grand model and frontier reality -- The grand model and the genesis of Southern political culture -- The grand model and the American city -- Epilogue (Political culture and the future of the city)
xiv, 305 pages ; 24 cm. (softcover)
Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Library
Acquisition
Accession
2016.004
Source or Donor
New Library Books Purchased (2016)
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
Political culture--Southern States--History, City and town life--Southern States, City planning--Southern States--History, South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Southern States--Politics and government--To 1775, Southern States--Social conditions, Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683
Book Details
Author
Wilson, Thomas D.
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Place Published
Location
Chapel Hill, NC
Call No.
F272 .W76 2016
ISBN
9781469626284
Notes
Date: [2016]
Copy No.: 1
Location
Location
Building
Missroon Library
Category
Permanent
Date
February 7, 2023
General Notes
Note
Notes: By Thomas D. Wilson.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
