The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country 1670-1920

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This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years Coclaniss study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside examining the effects of various factors--the environment the market economic and political ideology and social institutions--on the regions economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.