A new plantation world : sporting estates in the South Carolina lowcountry, 1900-1940 /

A new plantation world : sporting estates in the South Carolina lowcountry, 1900-1940 /

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Author / Creator:Vivian, Daniel, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:xiv, 351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies on the American South
Cambridge studies on the American South.
Subject:
Plantations -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Plantations.
South Carolina.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11459742
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ISBN:9781108416900
110841690X
9781108403429
1108403425
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:In the era between the world wars, wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen created more than seventy large estates in the coastal region of South Carolina. By retaining select features from earlier periods and adding new buildings and landscapes, wealthy sporting enthusiasts created a new type of plantation. In the process, they changed the meaning of the word 'plantation', with profound implications for historical memory of slavery and contemporary views of the South. A New Plantation World is the first critical investigation of these 'sporting plantations'. By examining the process that remade former sites of slave labor into places of leisure, Daniel Vivian explores the changing symbolism of plantations in Jim Crow-era America.

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