Charleston in Age of the Pinckneys

by George C. Rogers Jr.

Overview

A look at the rise and decline of the Pinckney family whose members were present at every major point in Charleston's history.

Charleston's greatest years paralleled the rise to influence, the heyday, and the decline of the Pinckney family... Charleston dominated the intellectual and commercial life of what is now known as the Deep South. It gave Carolina its leaders and decided questions for the rest of the colony and state... The city was also a great proslavery center, and it was this fact, plus the gradual inward-turning, past-oriented attitude that led to the decline of its influence on contemporary civilization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872492974
Publisher:	University of South Carolina Press
Publication date:	05/31/1980
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	241,600
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

George C. Rogers, Jr., the preeminent historian of South Carolina, taught history at the University of South Carolina for twenty-eight years. Editor of the multi-volume Papers of Henry Laurens project, he is also the author of Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston, 1758–1812; The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina; A South Carolina Chronology, 1497–1992; and most recently Generations of Lawyers, A History of the South Carolina Bar.

Table of Contents

	Preface to the Paperback Edition	v
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Prologue	xi
I.	The Economic Base	3
II.	The Open City	26
III.	The Sensuous City	55
IV.	The Mind of the City	89
V.	The Pinckney Family	116
VI.	The Closed City	141
	Epilogue	167
	Bibliographical Note	170
	Index	175

What People are Saying About This

The State

Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the Palmetto State's past.

Editorial Reviews

Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the Palmetto State's past.

The State

The author has gone far to explain the economic and political factors which made what was, in its golden century, the most beautiful and the most interesting city in America.

The Southern Literary Journal

It is a delightful book to read and comes from the pen of a master teacher of history.

Charleston Evening Post

In this attractive and incisive volume the ubiquitous and powerful Pinckney family is treated as the prototype of the dominant elite which headed Charleston society in its 'golden age' from the 1720s to the 1820s.

Journal of Southern History

In this attractive and incisive volume the ubiquitous and powerful Pinckney family is treated as the prototype of the dominant elite which headed Charleston society in its 'golden age' from the 1720s to the 1820s.

-- "Journal of Southern History"

It is a delightful book to read and comes from the pen of a master teacher of history.

-- "Charleston Evening Post"

The author has gone far to explain the economic and political factors which made what was, in its golden century, the most beautiful and the most interesting city in America.

-- "The Southern Literary Journal"

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