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GOOD: The book’s cover, spine, pages, and dust jacket are in excellent condition. There are remainder marks on the top and bottom edges (see photo). There is some light penciling on a few of the pages, but these marks do not obscure the text.
Product Details
From the dust jacket: “Recounting the period from the first Spanish exploration to the end of the Civil War, Edgar charts South Carolina’s rising national and international prominence and its parallel economic ascendancy. He dispels myths about the state’s early history—including the notion that the colony was inhabited by a homogeneous white population—and tells how South Carolina developed an agricultural economy that relied heavily on African American slave labor. Edgar examines, among other topics, the impact of the American revolution, Charleston’s significance as a metropolis and major seaport, and the state’s leadership in the Secession movement.”
There are 23 chapters that cover history from the 1600s to the 1990s:
- The Land Called Chicora
- Spanish South Carolina
- The Colony of a Colony
- Peopling the Province
- More Like a Negro Country
- The Proprietary Regime
- Trying Royal Government
- The Riches of the Province
- Everyday Life in Colonial South Carolina
- Threats: Foreign and Domestic
- The American Revolution
- Quest for Order
- To Raise Something for Sale
- A Visit to Antebellum South Carolina
- Calculating the Value of the Union
- The Civil War: Part 1, 1860-1865
- The Civil War: Part 2, 1865-1877
- Return of the Old Order
- Tillman
- South Carolina and the First New South
- The Draining Years
- All in One Lifetime
- Adjusting to New Circumstances
There are maps, illustrations, and tables throughout.