Books by "Robert M. Calhoon"
4 books found
Originally published: The big ship: the story of the S.S. United States. Newport News, Va.: Mariners' Museum, 1981.
South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution
by Robert Stansbury Lambert
2018 · Clemson University Press
South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution is the first comprehensive study of South Carolina’s loyalists in the Revolution. Drawing on an early study by Although Barnwell and on newly available British sources, this book shows a firm grasp of the principal groups and individuals in the province and state who dissented from the decision to seek independence.
A standard source on one of the most enigmatic colonies in North America In this modern and complete history, Robert Weir explicates the apparent paradoxes that defined colonial South Carolina. In doing so he offers provocative observations about its ascension to the pinnacle of mid-eighteenth-century prosperity, escalating racial tension, struggles for political control, and push toward revolution.