An Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads developments in agricultural practice as indices of planters' desire for progress, and she demonstrates the central role played by slavery in their pursuit of modern life. By linking behavior and ideas, Chaplin has produced a work of cultural history…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-4613-1
- EAN: 9780807846131
- Produktnummer: 1665521
- Verlag: Omohundro Institute and University of North Caroli
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 430 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.5 cm 689 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 689
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