A Short History of Charleston / Edition 2

by Robert N. Rosen

Overview

Robert N. Rosen's A Short History of Charleston has been hailed by critics, historians, and especially Charlestonians as authoritative, witty, and entertaining. Packed with anecdotes and enlivened by passages from diaries and letters, the fast-paced narrative recounts the port city's role in such signal events as the American Revolution, secession, and the Civil War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570031977
Publisher:	University of South Carolina Press
Publication date:	05/01/1997
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert N. Rosen, a third-generation Charlestonian, practices law on historic Meeting Street. Author of Confederate Charleston: A History of the City and the People during the Civil War, he holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition viii

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue x

1 Good King Charles's City (1670-1720) 1

2 The Colonial City (1720-1765) 13

3 The Revolutionary City (1765-1800) 39

4 The Capital of Southern Slavery (1670-1865) 59

5 The Antebellum City (1800-1860) 73

6 Confederate Charleston (1861-1865) 99

7 Reconstruction Charleston (1865-1877) 113

8 Porgy's City (1877-1941) 127

9 The Americanized City (1941-1975) 149

10 The Age of Riley (1975-2015) 159

Selected Bibliography 191

Index 195

What People are Saying About This

The State

Rosen is alert to the ironies and idiosyncrasies of his native city, and he writes of personalities and events with an easy, knowing hand, neither boastfully nor regretfully.

The Post & Courier

Sprightly and entertaining Robert Rosen has captured the flavor and flair of Charleston as few writers have been able to do.

Editorial Reviews

"Sprightly and entertaining Robert Rosen has captured the flavor and flair of Charleston as few writers have been able to do." The Post & Courier

From the Publisher

Rosen is alert to the ironies and idiosyncrasies of his native city, and he writes of personalities and events with an easy, knowing hand, neither boastfully nor regretfully.

The State

Sprightly and entertaining... Robert Rosen has captured the flavor and flair of Charleston as few writers have been able to do.

The Post & Courier

While the history of Charleston has been told many times before, it's not often been rendered so wryly, briskly, or affectionately as by author Robert Rosen in his A Short History of Charleston: Revised and Expanded Edition. His lively and fast-paced book—at just over 200 pages with numerous black-and-white illustrations—succinctly sums up nearly 350 years, spanning the city's proprietary past to its present incarnation as a tourist destination dependent on (and finally coming to terms with) its past.

Charleston Magazine