This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, Coclanis's study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effects of various factors--the environment, the market, economic and political ideology, and social institutions--on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920

Business & Money

Coclanis, Peter A.

Economics

Oxford University Press

<p>This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, Coclanis's study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effects of various factors-the environment, the market, economic and political ideology, and social institutions-on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.</p>

This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.

Our Hearts Fell to the Ground and Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression

Calloway, Colin G.

Riordon, William L.

Carlton, David L.

McDonald, Terrence J.

History

Bedford/St.Martin's

Confronting Southern Poverty and Plunkett of Tammany Hall: The Report on Economic Conditions of the South with Related Documents

American Promise 3e V2 & Reading the American Past 3e V2 & How the Other Half Lives & Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression & Movements of the New Left 1950-1975

Johnson, Michael P.

Roark, James L.

Stage, Sarah

Cohen, Patricia Cline

Lawson, Alan

Hartmann, Susan M.

Burner, David

Riis, Jacob A.

Gosse, Van

Americas

Scopes Trial & Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression & Brown v. Board of Education

Moran, Jeffrey P.

Martin, Waldo E.

Like the rest of British North America, the American South was "born capitalist." The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business enterprise like any other―indeed, one quite modern and sophisticated for its time. There were initially very few significant differences in business culture between the northern and southern parts of what became the United States. Yet the plantation placed its peculiar stamp on the South, and vice versa, and its path of development diverged increasingly from that of the growing manufacturing belt of the North. In their essays collected in The South, the Nation, and the World, David Carlton and Peter Coclanis effectively argue that the chronic economic difficulties of the American South cannot simply be explained away as resulting from a distinctive "premodern" business climate, because there was actually very little variation between one region’s business climate and another’s during the Antebellum period. Instead, it was the collapse of the slave regime in the 1860s that left the South in dire need of economic restructuring, and by Reconstruction the emergent American economy had foreclosed options formerly available to southern enterprise. Forced to play catch-up, southerners have had at best mixed success in the continuing struggle to create an economic life affording stable growth and broad opportunity to all the region’s people―and Carlton and Coclanis offer a fascinating illumination of the twists and turns in that economic history.

The South, the Nation and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development

Univ of Virginia Pr

The South, The Nation, and The World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development

University of Virginia Press

<p>The Civil War and Reconstruction eras decimated the rice-planting enterprise of the South, and no family experienced the effects of this economic upheaval quite as dramatically as the Heywards of South Carolina, a family synonymous with the wealth of the old rice kingdom in the Palmetto State. Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields collects the revealing wartime and postbellum letters and documents of Edward Barnwell "Barney" Heyward (1826-1871), a native of Beaufort District and grandson of Nathaniel Heyward, one of the most successful rice planters and largest slaveholders in the South. Barney Heyward was also the father of South Carolina governor Duncan Clinch Heyward, author of Seed from Madagascar, the definitive account of the rice kingdom's final stand a generation later. Edited by Margaret Belser Hollis and Allen H. Stokes, the Heyward family correspondence from this transformational period reveals the challenges faced by a once-successful industry and a once-opulent society in the throes of monumental change. During the war Barney Heyward served as a lieutenant in the engineering division of the Confederate army but devoted much of his time to managing affairs at his plantations near Columbia and Beaufort. His letters chronicle the challenges of preserving his lands and maintaining control over the enslaved labor force essential to his livelihood and his family's fortune. The wartime letters also provide a penetrating view of the Confederate defense of coastal South Carolina against the Union forces who occupied Beaufort District. In the aftermath of the conflict, Heyward worked with only limited success to revive planting operations. In addition to what these documents reveal about rice cultivation during tumultuous times, they also convey the drama, affections, and turmoil of life in the Heyward family, from Barney's increasingly difficult relations with his father, Charles Heyward, to his heartfelt devotion to his wife, the former Catherine "Tat" Maria Clinch, and their children.</p>

Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields: Letters of the Heyward Family, 1862-1871

University of South Carolina Press

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