Society and Culture in the Slave South

ISBN-13: 9780415070553 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 256 str.

J. William Harris

Opis

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 field. It includes 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.

Recenzje

`This should prove a useful book for undergraduate courses, and can certainly be recommended to those making up reading lists for seminars or tutorials. It will give students a gook flavour of the continuing vigour of the debates about American chattel slavery.' I

`... this collection reveals a lively contemporary interest in the dimensions of racial cultural autonomy, in the social dynamics of the family, and in the balance of power within the family as a battleground of conflict and collaboration between the genders.' - Buckingham Univ Bruce Collins Social History Society Bulletin

Spis treści

Contributors: Eugene Genovese, Emory University; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University; Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida; Sterling Stuckey, University of California, Riverside; Robert William Fogel, University of Chicago; Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Joan E. Cashin, Rutgers University, Camden; Norrece T. Jones Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University; Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University

O autorze

Edited by Harris, J. William