An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815In 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, trac |
Contents
Perspectives on the Development of a Plantation Region | 1 |
The Fate of Progress in the Early Lower South | 23 |
The Idea of Material Progress | 26 |
Local Discussion | 37 |
Slavery Sentiment and Stasis | 53 |
Being Exotic | 66 |
Species of Eternity | 68 |
Travelers AccountsScience and Fiction | 71 |
A Patriotic Fiber | 208 |
The Luxury Staple | 220 |
Crisis and Response Tidal Rice Cultivation | 227 |
Rivers | 228 |
Mills | 251 |
Power | 262 |
Creating a Cotton South | 277 |
The Geography of Opportunity | 281 |
The Local Work Ethic | 92 |
Fevers and Strangers | 93 |
Duties and Improvements | 108 |
A Problem | 117 |
Social Mobility | 128 |
Projects and Power | 131 |
Patrons of the Exotic | 134 |
The Case of Silk | 158 |
The Upcountry Responds | 165 |
Crisis and Response Indigo and Cotton | 187 |
An Imperial Blue | 190 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Series |
| Author | Joyce E. Chaplin |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | UNC Press Books, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0807846139, 9780807846131 |
| Length | 429 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / State & Local / General History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
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