Charleston County Public Library

The plantation, Edgar Tristram Thompson ; edited with an introduction by Sidney W. Mintz and George Baca

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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index present

non fiction

The plantation

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Edgar Tristram Thompson ; edited with an introduction by Sidney W. Mintz and George Baca

Southern classics series

"A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, 'The Plantation,' broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic theories of the origins of plantation societies and offered instead a richly nuanced understanding of the links between plantation culture, the global history of capitalism, and the political and economic contexts of hierarchical social classification. This first complete publication of Thompson's study makes available to modern readers one of the earliest attempts to reinterpret the history of the American South as an integral part of global processes."--P. [4] of cover

The plantation as a social institution -- The metropolis and the plantation -- The plantation in Virginia -- Plantation management and imported labor in Virginia -- The plantation and the frontier -- The natural history of the plantation