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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on December 7, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm089
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

S. Max Edelson. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

S. Max Edelson. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. xii + 383 pp. ISBN-10: 0-674-02303-X (alk. Paper); ISBN 13: 978-0-674-02303-1 (alk. Paper), $45.00

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One of the latest books to reappraise the economy of the American South is also one of the best. In Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina, S. Max Edelson presents an examination of the colonial plantation society that is remarkable both for the depth of its research and the nuance of its arguments. Taking aim at the stubbornly persistent image of stagnant plantations and planters more interested in being patriarchs than entrepreneurs, Edelson details the rise and maturation of a society that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Tom Downey

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