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This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775 (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
Bradford J. Wood
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Description for This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775 (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
Hardcover. The most modern tools of social history are used to examine the phenomenon of the Lower Cape Fear colony in North Carolina. First settled in 1725, within half a century it was the most prosperous part of the state. Bradford Wood describes the cultural and economic factors that drove the colony. Series: The Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftones, 55 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 739.
Between 1700 and 1775 no colony in British America experienced more impressive growth than North Carolina, and no region within the colony developed as rapidly as the Lower Cape Fear. Totally uninhabited by Europeans in 1700, this isolated corner of North Carolina's southern coast is particularly noteworthy for its relatively late colonization and its rapid rise to economic prominence. First settled in 1725, the region grew to be the most prosperous in North Carolina by 1775. In his study of this eighteenth-century settlement, Bradford J. Wood explores frontier development in a region surrounded by more-established communities. Challenging many commonly held ... Read more
Between 1700 and 1775 no colony in British America experienced more impressive growth than North Carolina, and no region within the colony developed as rapidly as the Lower Cape Fear. Totally uninhabited by Europeans in 1700, this isolated corner of North Carolina's southern coast is particularly noteworthy for its relatively late colonization and its rapid rise to economic prominence. First settled in 1725, the region grew to be the most prosperous in North Carolina by 1775. In his study of this eighteenth-century settlement, Bradford J. Wood explores frontier development in a region surrounded by more-established communities. Challenging many commonly held ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press South Carolina
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
The Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570035401
SKU
V9781570035401
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About Bradford J. Wood
Bradford J. Wood is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Wake Forest University. Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Wood grew up in southeastern Michigan. His scholarly interests center on the history of plantation societies in colonial British America. Wood's manuscript for This Remote Part of the ... Read more
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