Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880

摘要

The Civil War is a convenient starting or stopping place for historians of the nineteenth-century United States. Political and moral arguments which grew ever more heated in the 1850s finally found expression in war, and the results were momentous: the end of slavery. In this book, however, Bruce Eelman takes a more unusual tactic and investigates the history of a single county in South Carolina-Spartanburg-from 1845 to 1880.