An anxious pursuit : agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower South, 1730-1815 / Joyce E. Chaplin.

In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of 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, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Geor...

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Main Author: Chaplin, Joyce E.
Corporate Author: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1993.
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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