Atlantic and Local
Scales of Interdependence in Eighteenth Century Charleston, South Carolina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5852909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Hart (0000-0003-0749-3701, Arts and Humanities Research Council, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Issue | 24 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Almanack (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2236-4633 • E-ISSN: 2236-4633 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/2236-463324ed00319 |
| OpenAlex | W3021263790 |
| SCIELO_PID | S2236-46332020000100303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
Using Charleston, South Carolina, USA, as a case-study, this article argues that this interplay of scales and, more specifically unequal scales, was just as important to fostering the growth of globally-connected cities in the early modern Atlantic. In the course of the eighteenth century, Charleston grew from a few thousand inhabitants to one of the largest cities in the North Atlantic with a population of roughly 15,000 at the first United States Census in 1790. Historians have customarily attributed this growth to the simultaneous expansion of the plantation economy, which produced mainly rice and indigo. Nevertheless, there were a host of complex local processes at play that also contributed to Charleston's importance, which have until recently been almost completely overlooked by scholars. Delving into the relationship between the local and the global is essential to fully understanding both the reason's for Charleston's growth and its critical role in connecting the region to the Atlantic economy
Ancient history · Archaeology · Atlantic World · Census · Geography · Political science · Population · Population growth · Sociology · South carolina · American History and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Public Administration
“Such Things Ought Not to be”
The William Burrows House of Charleston
South Carolina’s Colonial Land Market
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
Slave and servant housing in Charleston, 1770–1820
Small Producer Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century England
The Family Firm in Industrial Capitalism
Tyrannicide
Building Charleston
The Shadow of a Dream
Slavery in the City
South Carolina and the Atlantic Economy in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |