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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This impressive scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols--the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry.European settlers came to South Carolina in 1670 determined to possess an abundant wilderness. Over the course of a century, they settled highly adaptive rice and indigo plantations across a vast coastal plain. Forcing slaves to turn swampy wastelands into productive fields and to channel surging waters into elaborate irrigation systems, planters initiated a stunning economic transformation. The result, Edelson reveals, was two interdependent plantation worlds. A rough rice frontier became a place of unremitting field labor. With the profits, planters made Charleston and its hinterland into a refined, diversified place to live. From urban townhouses and rural retreats, they ran multiple-plantation enterprises, looking to England for affirmation as agriculturists, gentlemen, and stakeholders in Britain's American empire. Offering a new vision of the Old South that was far from static, Edelson reveals the plantations of early South Carolina to have been dynamic instruments behind an expansive process of colonization.With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made the Carolina Lowcountry one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world. Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry. With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made it one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). xiv, 281 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; slight bumping at edges. Blue cloth. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Primary contents = "Foreword: Empire Building and Empire Wrecking" by Joseph P. Ward; "Virginia's Religious Revolution: From Established Monopoly to Free Marketplace" by Franklin T. Lambert; "Power and Authority in the Colonial South: The English Legacy and its Contradictions" by Holly Brewer; "'Like a Stone Wall Never to Be Broke': The British-Indian Boundary Line with the Creek Indians, 1763-1773" by Kathryn E. Holland Braund; "Carolinians Abroad: Cultivating English Identities from the Colonial Lower South" by S. Max Edelson; "The American South and English Print Satire, 1760-1865" by Marcus Wood; "British Views of the Confederacy" by R.J.M. Blackett; "The South and the British Left, 1930-1960" by Hugh Wilford; "'By Elvis and All the Saints': Images of the American South in the World of 1950s British Popular Music" by Brian Ward; "Afterword: On the Irrelevance of Knights" by Michael O'Brien. ISBN 1578065801.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Definitive Study of Colonial Lowcountry Agriculture & Power. Re-examine the economic engine and environmental transformation of the early American South with this acclaimed, award-winning monograph published by Harvard University Press. Historian S. Max Edelson offers a rigorous analysis of how 18th-century South Carolina planters transformed a vast coastal wilderness into a highly profitable, slave-powered agricultural empire. Integrating environmental history, economic geography, and social analysis, Edelson explores how Lowcountry planters mastered rice and indigo cultivation, managed complex landholdings, and leveraged the forced labor and expertise of enslaved Africans to reshape both the physical landscape and imperial Atlantic trade networks. Academic & Historical Value: An essential primary reference for scholars of early American history, Atlantic world studies, environmental geography, and the economic history of slavery in the antebellum South. Bibliographic Detail: Stated First Edition / First Printing (2006). Hardcover format with original dust jacket. Published by Harvard University Press. Richly illustrated with historical regional maps, land survey diagrams, and archival figures throughout. ISBN-10: 067402303X / ISBN-13: 9780674023031. Condition Report: Dust Jacket: Present with very light, minimal surface shelf wear. Colors and jacket graphics remain crisp, bright, and clean. Binding & Boards: Fine cloth hardcover boards are rigid, square, and tightly bound. Features sharp corners and pristine extremities. Interior & Text Block: Pages, maps, and archival tables are exceptionally clean, bright, and completely unmarked—entirely free of student highlighting, marginalia, or former owner signatures. Binding remains square and firm throughout. An exceptionally clean, near-fine copy of a pivotal Harvard University Press monograph.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson's The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain's imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution.Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida's rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces-their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce-and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic.Britain's vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London's mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented.Accompanying Edelson's innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson's The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain's imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution.Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida's rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces-their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce-and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic.Britain's vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London's mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented.Accompanying Edelson's innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts. In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britains imperial ambitions before the Revolution. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This impressive scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols--the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry.European settlers came to South Carolina in 1670 determined to possess an abundant wilderness. Over the course of a century, they settled highly adaptive rice and indigo plantations across a vast coastal plain. Forcing slaves to turn swampy wastelands into productive fields and to channel surging waters into elaborate irrigation systems, planters initiated a stunning economic transformation. The result, Edelson reveals, was two interdependent plantation worlds. A rough rice frontier became a place of unremitting field labor. With the profits, planters made Charleston and its hinterland into a refined, diversified place to live. From urban townhouses and rural retreats, they ran multiple-plantation enterprises, looking to England for affirmation as agriculturists, gentlemen, and stakeholders in Britain's American empire. Offering a new vision of the Old South that was far from static, Edelson reveals the plantations of early South Carolina to have been dynamic instruments behind an expansive process of colonization.With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made the Carolina Lowcountry one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world. Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry. With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made it one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain's imperial ambitions before the Revolution. Num Pages: 420 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 23 x 15. . . 2017. Hardcover. . . . .…

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