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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453442703321

Autore

McCurry Stephanie

Titolo

Masters of small worlds : yeoman households, gender relations, and the political culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country / / Stephanie McCurry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-4237-6465-X

1-280-44129-1

1-60129-852-8

0-19-972812-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 320p. ) : facsim., map

Disciplina

975.703

Soggetti

Political culture - South Carolina - History - 19th century

Social classes - South Carolina - History - 19th century

Sex role - South Carolina - History - 19th century

Slavery - South Carolina - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

South Carolina History 1775-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This award-winning book is an innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country. It explores the place of the yeomanry in the plantation society and the contradictory politics of what was a slave society