Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Thompson, Edgar T. (Edgar Tristram), 1900-1989.

Publication

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-
• Baca, George.
• University of South Carolina. Institute for Southern Studies.

Description

xx, 150 p. : map; 23 cm.

Summary

First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.

Series Statement

Southern classics series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Southern classics series.

Subject

• Plantations
• Plantations > Economic aspects > Southern States
• Plantations > Economic aspects > Virginia
• Land tenure > Southern States
• Land tenure > Virginia
• Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century
• Virginia > Economic conditions > 19th century

Note

• "Published in Cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies of the University of South Carolina."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781570039409 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1570039402 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781570039416 (pbk : alk. paper)
• 1570039410 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010017287

OCLC

• 612961082
• SCSB-10364357

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library