Charleston! Charleston!
The History of a Southern City
by Walter J. Fraser, Jr.

University of South Carolina Press (1989). xiii + 542pp. including index. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Hardcover. Illustrated. ISBN-10: 0-87249-643-0. ISBN-13: 978-0-87249-643-9.

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From the Jacket

About the Book

Often called the most “Southern” of Southern cities, Charleston was one of the earliest urban centers in North America. It quickly became a boisterous, brawling sea city trading with distant ports, and later a capital of the Lowcountry plantations, a Southern cultural oasis, and a summer home for planters. In this city, the Civil War began. And now, in the twentieth century its metropolitan area has evolved into a microcosm of the “military-industrial comlex.”

This book records Charleston's development from 1670 and ends up with an afterword on the effects of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, drawing with special care on information from every facet of the city's life — its people and institutions; its art and architecture; its recreational, social and intellectual life; its politics and city government.

The most complete social, political, and cultural history of Charleston, this book is a treasure chest for historians and for anyone inteested in delving into this lovely city, layer by layer.

About the Author

Walter J. Fraser, Jr., is a professor of history and chair of the history department at Georgia Southern College. He received an A.B. degree in history from the University of Virginia in 1958, an M.A. from East Carolina University in 1964, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1970.

/frin 1968–1982, Dr. Fraser served abroad with the Army Security Agency and taught at Radford College and The Citadel. He is coeditor of three books —

• From the Old South to the New: Essays on the Transitional South,
• The Southern Enigma: Essays on Race, Class, and Folk Culture, and
• The Web of Southern Social Relations: Women, Family, and Education —

and has written articles or reviews for such publications as the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, South Carolina Historical Magazine, Georgia Historical Quarterly, and Journal of American History.

Dr. Fraser lives in Statesboro, Georgia, with his wife, Lynn, and a standard poodle, Garbo.

Front cover photo of the Nathaniel Russell House courtesy of South Carolina Department of Tourism.

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