The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920
- ISBN-10
- 0195072677
- ISBN-13
- 9780195072679
- Series
- The Shadow of a Dream
- Category
- Charleston (S.C.)
- Pages
- 370
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Peter A. Coclanis
Description
Coclanis here charts the economic and social rise and fall of Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, his study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effect of various factors on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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