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Building Charleston : town and society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / Emma Hart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Emma, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--South Carolina--Charleston--History.
- City planning.
- Charleston (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
- Charleston (S.C.).
- Charleston (S.C.)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Moreover, Building Charleston places the colonial American town, for the first time, at the very 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585455
- 9781280490224
- 1280490225
- 9780813928692
- 0813928699
- OCLC:
- 755624546
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