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

by Coclanis, Peter A.

• ISBN13: 9780195044201
• ISBN10: 0195044207
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-02-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Peter A. Coclanis is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Sociology of Architecture in Colonial Charleston	p. 3
The Carolina Venture in Economic Context	p. 13
Mise en Scene	p. 27
The Economic Rise of the South Carolina Low Country	p. 48
"Lay dis body down": The Economic Demise of the Low Country	p. 111
Epilogue	p. 159
Demographic Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Charleston
Seasonal Mortality in Charleston and Boston During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century	p. 161
Recorded Burials, Baptisms, and Births, Parish of St. Philip's Charleston 1720-1750	p. 164
White Family Structure in Charleston, Bridgetown, and Bristol	p. 164
An Estimate of the Crude Death Rate for the White Population of Charleston 1722-1732	p. 166
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 304
Index	p. 367
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