Colonial South Carolina : a history / Robert M. Weir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weir, Robert M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

South Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 431 p. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A standard source on one of the most enigmatic colonies in North America In this modern and complete history, Robert Weir explicates the apparent paradoxes that defined colonial South Carolina. In doing so he offers provocative observations about its ascension to the pinnacle of mid-eighteenth-century prosperity, escalating racial tension, struggles for political control, and push toward revolution.

Contents:

Cover

COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA A HISTORY

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

1 PROLOGUE TO SETTLEMENT

2 THE INDIANS

3 THE LAND

4 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

5 TWILIGHT OF PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT, 1700-1719

6 THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICS, 1720-1748

7 THE ECONOMY

8 BLACKS, WHITES, AND SLAVERY

9 SOCIETY: THE SOCIAL AGGREGATE

10 SOCIETY: ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

11 THE CHEROKEE WAR AND THE INDIRECT CHALLENGE TO THE CAROLINA GENTRY

12 THE OVERT CHALLENGE AND THE COMING OF THE REVOLUTION

13 THE REVOLUTION

14 EPILOGUE: TOWARD THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT

INDEX.

Notes:

Originally published: Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press, c1983, in series: A history of the American colonies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-412) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781643364346

1643364340

9780585334103

0585334102

OCLC:

1370495557