This detailed analysis of slavery in the antebellum South was written in 1975 in response to the prior year's publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's controversial Time on the Cross, which argued that slavery was an efficient and dynamic engine for the southern economy and that its success was due largely to the willing cooperation of the slaves themselves. The noted labor historian Herbert G. Gutman was unconvinced, even outraged, by Fogel and Engerman's arguments. In this book he offers a systematic dissection of Time on the Cross, drawing on a wealth of data to contest that...
This detailed analysis of slavery in the antebellum South was written in 1975 in response to the prior year's publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley ...
Finally available in paperback, "Power and Culture" is the last work by America s most influential labor and social historian, the late Herbert Gutman. Edited and introduced by Gutman s colleague Ira Berlin, the book includes original, unpublished essays from throughout Gutman s career and important but unavailable works from journals and periodicals, as well as an extended interview with Gutman and a comprehensive bibliography of his works.
"Power and Culture" features essays on the lives of workers and the formation of class during the Gilded Age of American corporations, and on the...
Finally available in paperback, "Power and Culture" is the last work by America s most influential labor and social historian, the late Herbert Gut...
