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The Ashley Cooper plan : the founding of Carolina and the origins of Southern political culture / Thomas D. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Thomas D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Southern States--History.
- Political culture.
- City planning--Southern States--History.
- City planning.
- Cities and towns--Southern States.
- Cities and towns.
- South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- South Carolina.
- North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- North Carolina.
- Southern States--Politics and government--To 1775.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.
- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "In The Ashley Cooper Plan, Thomas Wilson connects Anthony Ashley Cooper (the First Earl of Shaftesbury) and John Locke's seventeenth-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. This important work 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. Wilson argues that the "Gothic" framework of the Carolina "Fundamental Constitutions" was stripped of its original imperative of class reciprocity in the transition to slavery, which reverberates in American politics to this day"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908483-3-8
- 979-88-908483-4-5
- 1-4696-2629-2
- 1-4696-2630-6
- OCLC:
- 939963158
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