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The Ashley Cooper Plan: The Founding of Carolina and the Origins of Southern Political Culture

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In this highly original work, Thomas D. Wilson offers surprising new insights into the origins of the political storms we witness today. Wilson connects the Ashley Cooper Plan–a seventeenth-century model for a well-ordered society imagined by Anthony Ashley Cooper (1st Earl of Shaftesbury) and his protege John Locke–to current debates about views on climate change, sustainable development, urbanism, and professional expertise in general. In doing so, he examines the ways that the city design, political culture, ideology, and governing structures of the Province of Carolina have shaped political acts and public policy even in the present. Wilson identifies one of the vital fundamental paradoxes of American history: even if Ashley Cooper and Locke based their model of rational planning on assumptions of equality, the lure of profits available from slaveholding soon undermined its utopian qualities. Wilson argues that in the transition to a slave society, the “Gothic” framework of the Carolina Fundamental Constitutions was once stripped of its original imperative of class reciprocity, reverberating in American politics to at the present time.

Reflecting on latest culture, Wilson argues that the nation’s urban-rural divide rooted in this ancient times has corrosively influenced American character, pitting one demographic segment against any other. Whilst illuminating the political philosophies of Ashley Cooper and Locke as they relate to cities, Wilson also provides those currently under attack by antiurbanists–from city planners to climate scientists–with a deeper understanding of the intellectual origins of a divided The usa and the long history that reinforces it.

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