The Plantation

Informationen zum Autor George Baca is a research scholar in anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and Dong-A University in Pusan, South Korea. He is an associate editor of Dialectical Anthropology and the author of Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military Town. Klappentext The first complete publication of an overlooked gem in American intellectual history Zusammenfassung 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. 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.

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• Authors: Edgar Tristram Thompson, Edgar Tristram/ Mintz Thompson
• Assisted by: George Baca (Editor), Sidney W Mintz (Editor), Sidney W. Mintz (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2010
• EAN: 9781570039409
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-940-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Southern Classics; Southern Classics (Univ of Sou; Southern Classics; Southern Classics (Univ of Sou
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries