The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home

ISBN-13: 9781316502891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 308 str.

Eugene D. Genovese; Douglas Ambrose

Opis

This book examines the domestic lives and leisure pursuits of planters in the antebellum American South.

Recenzje

'In this subtly provocative work, Genovese pulls back the curtain on the lives of leisure planters made on the backs of black labor. A fitting coda to a corpus of immeasurable impact, The Sweetness of Life offers crucial insight into the mind of the Old South's master class.' Kathleen Hilliard, Iowa State University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. A gracious people; 2. Dining room, parlor, and lawn; 3. Horses and hounds; 4. Vignettes: sundry pleasures; 5. Vignettes: charms of high life; 6. Home away from home; 7. Matters not so sweet; Editor's epilogue.