A New Plantation World

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-108-41690-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 744 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies on the American South

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vivian, Daniel J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Discovering the lowcountry: Northern sportsmen in paradise, 1880–1915; 2. Creating plantations for sport and leisure: estate-making in the Carolina lowcountry, 1915–1940; 3. New lowcountry, new plantations; 4. Creating Mulberry Plantation, 1915–1935: the Colonial Revival as an estate-making idiom; 5. Medway plantation: the patina of age; 6. Representing a new plantation world; 7. Plantation life: varieties of experience on the remade plantations of the lowcountry; Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Vivian, Daniel J.
Daniel J. Vivian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky.