The Ashley Cooper Plan : the founding of Carolina and the origins of Southern political culture /

In The Ashley Cooper Plan, Thomas Wilson connects Anthony Ashley Cooper (the First Earl of Shaftesbury) and John Locke's seventeenth-century vision of well-ordered society to the design of cities in the Province of Carolina to current debates about the relationship about climate change, sustain...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, Thomas D., Jr (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Political culture > Southern States > History. City planning > Southern States > History. South Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. North Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Southern States > Politics and government > To 1775. Southern States > Social conditions. Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, > Earl of, > 1621-1683. Cities and towns > Southern States.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: America : a blank slate for English utopianism
Carolina : the first planned colony
The Carolina grand model
The grand model and frontier reality
The grand model and the genesis of Southern political culture
The grand model and the American city
Epilogue: political culture and the future of the city.