Showing The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 by Peter A. Coclanis

The Shadow of a Dream Coclanis here charts the economic and social rise and fall of Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. His study analyzes the interaction of forces on the city and countryside, examining the effect of factors on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.