World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805 - Hardcover

Moore, Peter N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570036667 ISBN 13: 9781570036668

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2007

Synopsis

Using the community of the Waxhaws as his proving ground, Peter N. Moore challenges the notion that the Carolina upcountry was a static, undeveloped backwater until entrepreneurial cotton planters entered the region after 1800. Moore looks through the lens of a single community - a predominately Scots-Irish settlement in the lower Catawba River valley in what is today Fairfield, Lancaster, York, and Chester counties - to document the social, economic, and cultural characteristics of a locale that was dynamic before planters set their sights on piedmont South Carolina. Moore shows that social tensions within the Waxhaw community drove its transformation, rather than the land-grabbing speculators and aggressive planters. He identifies the forces for change within the Waxhaw community - immigration patterns, neighborhood rivalries, population growth, and developing markets for slaves and wheat.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter N. Moore is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. His doctoral dissertation was a 2001 finalist for the C. Vann Woodward Best Dissertation Award of the Southern Historical Association.

Review:

Winner of the George C. Rogers, Jr., Book Award -- South Carolina Historical Society

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1570036667
• ISBN 13: 9781570036668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 175