Colonial South Carolina: A History

Robert M. Weir

University of South Carolina Press, 1997 - History - 431 pages

A standard source on one of the most enigmatic colonies in North America

In this modern and complete history, Robert Weir explicates the apparent paradoxes that defined colonial South Carolina. In doing so he offers provocative observations about its ascension to the pinnacle of mid-eighteenth-century prosperity, escalating racial tension, struggles for political control, and push toward revolution.

About the author

Robert M. Weir, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, has long concentrated his research on the colonial and Revolutionary period in South Carolina. He is the author of "A Most Important Epocha" The Coming of the Revolution in South Carolina and "The Last of American Freemen" Studies in the Political Culture of the Colonial and Revolutionary South.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Colonial South Carolina: A History; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Author: Robert M. Weir
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1997
• ISBN: 1570031894, 9781570031892
• Length: 431 pages
• Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / Modern / General; History / Social History; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism