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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) by Joyce E Chaplin; Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the 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 in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads developments in agricultural practice as indices of planters' desire for progress, and she demonstrates the central role played by slavery in their pursuit of modern life. By linking behavior and ideas, Chaplin has produced a work of cultural history that unites intellectual, social, and economic history. Using public records as well as planters' and farmers' private papers, Chaplin examines innovations in rice, indigo, and cotton cultivation as a window through which to see planters' pursuit of a modern future. She demonstrates that planters actively sought to improve their society and economy even as they suffered a pervasive anxiety about the corrupting impact of progress and commerce. The basis for their accomplishments and the root of their anxieties, according the Chaplin, were the same:
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- Author
- Joyce E Chaplin; Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
- Publisher
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807820841
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Agriculture, Humanities
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