Our Southern Zion: A History of Calvinism in the South Caolina Low Country, 1690-1990

by Erskine Clarke

The South Carolina low country has long been regarded--not only in popular imagination and paperback novels but also by respected scholars--as a region dominated by what earlier historians called "a cavalier spirit" and by what later historians have simply described as "a wholehearted devotion to amusement and the neglect of religion and intellectual pursuits." Such images of the low country have been powerful interpreters of the region because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817307575
• ISBN13: 9780817307578
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"