Author: Peter A. Coclanis

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0195072677

Coclanis here 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, his study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effect of various factors on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.