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

By: Contributor(s): Series: Southern classics seriesPublication details: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2010.Description: xx, 150 p. : 1 map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781570039409 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781570039416 (pbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.72 22
LOC classification:
  • HD1471.A3 T49 2010
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.
Summary: First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.

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

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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