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An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press) Paperback - 1996

by Joyce E. Chaplin

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  • Title An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 430
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, Chapel Hill,
  • Date 1996-09-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Z1-N-006-00913
  • ISBN 9780807846131 / 0807846139
  • Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.17 x 1.05 in (23.55 x 15.67 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92021432
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.02

First line

In 1768, Frederick George Mulcaster, a young Scottish planter in East Florida, described to a correspondent the most important attributes of the new British settlement at an early stage in its English-speaking history.

From the rear cover

Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters perceived themselves as a modern, improving people.

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