An anxious pursuit: agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower South, 1730-1815

Ch. 1. Perspectives on the Development of a Plantation Region

1. Considering Modernity. Ch. 2. The Fate of Progress in the Early Lower South. Ch. 3. Being Exotic. Ch. 4. The Local Work Ethic. Ch. 5. Projects and Power

2. Realizing Modernity. Ch. 6. Crisis and Response: Indigo and Cotton. Ch. 7. Crisis and Response: Tidal Rice Cultivation. Ch. 8. Creating a Cotton South. Ch. 9. Factories and Fields

Epilogue: Slavery, Progress, and the "Federo-national" Union.