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To Make This Land Our Own: Community Identity and Social Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865 Hardcover - 2007
by Arlin Migliazzo; Foreword by Lawrence S. Rowland
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- Title To Make This Land Our Own: Community Identity and Social Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865
- Author Arlin Migliazzo; Foreword by Lawrence S. Rowland
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 435
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781570036828 / 1570036829
- Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.35 x 1.29 in (23.27 x 16.13 x 3.28 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
- Library of Congress subjects Purrysburg (S.C.: Township) - History - 18th, Purrysburg (S.C.: Township) - History - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006100450
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.798
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2008, Page 69
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To Make This Land Our Own: Community Identity and Social Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732 1865 (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World) Hardcover – Illustrated, September 19, 2007
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Perfect: still in factory shirnk wrap.A case study in the social history of frontier town building set in the swamps of South CarolinaOn the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and England converged in a planned settlement named Purrysburg. This examination of the first South Carolina township in Governor Robert Johnson's strategic plan to populate and defend the colonial backcountry offers the clearest picture to date of the settlement of the colony's Southern frontier by ethnically diverse and contractually obligated immigrants.Arlin C. Migliazzo contends that the story of Purrysburg Township, founded in 1732 and set in the forbidding environment bounded by the Savannah River and the Coosawhatchie swamps, challenges the notion that white colonists shed their ethnic distinctions to become a monolithic culture.…
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