Charleston! Charleston!: The History of a Southern City

by Walter J. Fraser Jr.

Book Overview

Often called the most "Southern" of Southern cities, Charleston was one of the earliest urban centers in North America. It quickly became a boisterous, brawling sea city trading with distant ports, and later a capital of the Lowcountry plantations, a Southern cultural oasis, and a summer home for planters. In this city, the Civil War began. And now, in the twentieth century, its metropolitan area has evolved into a microcosm of "the military-industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872497976
• ISBN13: 9780872497979
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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