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An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Joyce E. Chaplin New edition
An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Joyce E. Chaplin
Examines the impact of Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. It focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters perceived themselves as a modern, improving people.
429 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 maps, 17 tables, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 9, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807846131 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 430 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 27 mm · 671 g |
| Language | English |
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