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.
- ISBN10 0195072677
- ISBN13 9780195072679
- Publish Date 5 September 1991 (first published 23 February 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English