New Plantation World - Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940

Examines the creation of 'sporting plantations' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

Examines the transformation of architecture and landscape involved in the making of 'sporting plantations' in coastal South Carolina by wealthy sporting enthusiasts. Vivian explores the meaning of plantations in American culture, how new sporting estates affected historical memory of slavery, and the consequences for contemporary views of the South Carolina coast and its past.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Vivian, Daniel J. Vivian, Daniel J. (University of Kentucky) Vivian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781108416900
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41690-0
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South; Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South Carolina, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of Architecture, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, History and Archaeology, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Slavery and abolition of slavery