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A new plantation world : sporting estates in the South Carolina lowcountry, 1900-1940
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A new plantation world : sporting estates in the South Carolina lowcountry, 1900-1940 / Daniel J. Vivian.
ISBN
9781108416900
110841690X
9781108403429
1108403425
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 27, 2018
Series
Cambridge studies on the American South
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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