Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 by Joyce E. Chaplin

Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

Joyce E. Chaplin

430 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced

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In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tra...

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