Anxious pursuit, an: agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower south, 1730-1815
Auteur :
Chaplin, Joyce E.
Éditeur :
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN :
9780807846131
Date de publication :
9 sept. 1996
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 2,6 cm
Poids :
333 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Examines the impact of Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. It focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters perceived themselves as a modern, improving people.