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Society and culture in the slave South
- Title
- Society and culture in the slave South / edited by J. William Harris.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Harris, J. William, 1946-
- Description
- ix, 245 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic field. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a `paternalistic' society and culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men and women. The essays draw on a wide range of disciplines, including economics, psychology and anthropology to investigate the nature of plantation and family life in the South. Explanatory notes guide the reader through each essay and the Editor's introduction places the work in its historiographical context. -- Amazon.com.
- Series Statement
- Rewriting histories
- Uniform Title
- Rewriting histories
- Subject
- Slavery > Southern States
- Slavery > Economic aspects > Southern States
- Women > Southern States > Psychology
- Enslaved persons > Southern States > Psychology
- Economic history
- Slavery
- Slavery > Economic aspects
- Enslaved persons > Psychology
- Social conditions
- Women > Psychology
- Sklaverei
- Soziale Situation
- Slavernij
- Historia da america > politica e sociedade (escravidao)
- Historia da america > politica e sociedade (mulher)
- Southern States > Social conditions
- Southern States > Economic conditions
- Southern States
- USA > Südstaaten
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The fruits of merchant capital : the slave South as a paternalist society / Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Within the plantation household : women in a paternalist system / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- American slavery : a flexible, highly developed form of capitalism / Robert William Fogel -- Slavery and the circle of culture / Sterling Stuckey -- The mask of obedience : male slave psychology in the Old South / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- The Black family as a mechanism of planter control / Norrece T. Jones, Jr. -- Love and biography : three courtships / Steven M. Stowe -- Women and the search for manly independence / Joan E. Cashin -- Female slaves : sex roles and status in the antebellum plantation South / Deborah G. White.
- ISBN
- 0415070546
- 9780415070546
- 9780415070553
- 0415070554
- 9786610321025
- 6610321027
- 0203415922
- 9780203415924
- 0415070554 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 92008841
- OCLC
- ocm25508245
- 25508245
- SCSB-8969842
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library