Hart, Emma, 1972-

Building Charleston town and society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / [electronic resource] : Emma Hart. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010. - xii, 274 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"To plant in towns" : Charles Towne at the founding of Carolina -- "A floating market" : commercial growth, urban growth -- "Stupendous works" : building urban dynamism into the Low country -- Urban households, economic opportunity, and social structure -- Criminal pleasures and charitable deeds : town and culture -- "A very essential service to this community" : the politics of the town.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2011.
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City planning--History.--South Carolina--Charleston


Charleston (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
Charleston (S.C.)--Social conditions.


Electronic books.

HT168.C453 / H37 2010eb

975.7/91502