A new plantation world : sporting estates in the South Carolina lowcountry, 1900-1940 / Daniel J. Vivian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vivian, Daniel, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies on the American South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plantations--South Carolina--History--20th century.

Plantations.

History.

South Carolina.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 351 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In the era between the world wars, wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen created more than seventy large estates in the coastal region of South Carolina. By retaining select features from earlier periods and adding new buildings and landscapes, wealthy sporting enthusiasts created a new type of plantation. In the process, they changed the meaning of the word 'plantation', with profound implications for historical memory of slavery and contemporary views of the South. A New Plantation World is the first critical investigation of these 'sporting plantations'. By examining the process that remade former sites of slave labor into places of leisure, Daniel Vivian explores the changing symbolism of plantations in Jim Crow-era America.

Contents:

Discovering the lowcountry: northern sportsmen in paradise, 1880-1915

Creating plantations for sport and leisure: estate-making in the Carolina lowcountry, 1915-1940

New lowcountry, new plantations

Creating Mulberry Plantation, 1915-1935: the colonial revival as an estate-making idiom

Medway Plantation: the patina of age

Representing a new plantation world

Plantation life: varieties of experience on the remade plantations of the lowcountry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108416900

110841690X

9781108403429

1108403425

OCLC:

1002294514