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Building Charleston town and society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world /

Main Author: Hart, Emma, 1972-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Subjects:
City planning > History. > South Carolina
Charleston (S.C.) > Economic conditions. > Charleston
Charleston (S.C.) > Social conditions.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10495601
Table of Contents:
  • "To plant in towns" : Charles Towne at the founding of Carolina
  • "A floating market" : commercial growth, urban growth
  • "Stupendous works" : building urban dynamism into the Low country
  • Urban households, economic opportunity, and social structure
  • Criminal pleasures and charitable deeds : town and culture
  • "A very essential service to this community" : the politics of the town.

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