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Julia Brock, Daniel Vivian - Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South

The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940

Av Julia Brock, Daniel Vivian

Del i serien New Studies in Southern History

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Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of the post-emancipation South, historians have paid little attention to the redevelopment of plantations for non-agricultural use. By examining the two largest concentrations of sporting plantations on the south Atlantic coast, this collection explores questions about historical memory of slavery, race relations, material culture, and the environment during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Daniel Vivian is assistant professor and director of the Public History Program at the University of Louisville. Julia Brock is assistant professor and co-director of the Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia.

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This collection of seven essays raises important questions about the post-reconstruction and 20th-century South . . . The collective contribution is to highlight the development of northern-owned hunting estates in coastal Carolina and Georgia and in the red hills of southwestern Georgia and the northern Florida panhandle. The estates were at once leisure retreats and illustrations of the early 20th-century approaches to conservation (hunting and game laws often ran counter to local economic needs) or interracial relations (work-based relationships on the estates reinforced the position of African Americans in the world of southern tenancy even as the estate owners were dependent on tenants for expertise as guides). The essays are strongest in giving detail to the patterns of estate development (architecture, purchasing, or the estates as tourist destinations) and in outlining the social or hunting activities of the owners, residents, and hunters. While the essays also demonstrate the influence of estate owners in the politics of the 20th-century South, there are potentially rewarding lines of inquiry into politics that are left unexplored. . . .Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

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