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.

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