Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

9/1/1980 - 8/31/1982

Funding Totals

$88,638.00 (approved)
$88,638.00 (awarded)


Comparative History of Boston, Massachusetts & Charleston, South Carolina in the 1830's

FAIN: RS-*1454-80

University of Maine, Orono (Orono, ME 04473-1513)
William H. Pease (Project Director: February 1980 to October 1990)

To support a comparative study of how two cities -- Boston, Massachusetts and Charleston, South Carolina -- responded to the crisis-filled decade of the 1830s. The similarities and differences in the cities' internal structures will be considered.