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Object Type |
Book |
Title |
A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940 |
Author |
Vivian, Daniel J. |
Summary |
An investigation of the sporting plantations created by wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen in the era between the world wars. Examines the process that remade former sites of slave labor into places of leisure and the changing symbolism of plantations in Jim Crow-era America. Contents: Discovering the lowcountry: Northern sportsmen in paradise, 1880–1915 -- Creating plantations for sport and leisure: estate-making in the Carolina lowcountry, 1915–1940 -- New lowcountry, new plantations -- Creating Mulberry Plantation, 1915–1935: the Colonial Revival as an estate-making idiom -- Medway plantation: the patina of age -- Representing a new plantation world -- Plantation life: varieties of experience on the remade plantations of the lowcountry |
Call No. |
F270 .V58 2018 |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
Publication/Copyright Date |
2018 |
Subjects |
Plantations--South Carolina--History--20th century Plantation life--South Carolina--History--20th century Mulberry Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.) Medway (S.C.) |
Notes |
By Daniel J. Vivian. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Series |
Cambridge Studies on the American South |
ISBN |
9781108416900 |
Object ID # |
2018.006.1 |