LEADER 03506nam 2200601 450 001 9910791498103321 005 20230207232300.0 010 $a0-19-771461-7 010 $a1-4237-6465-X 010 $a1-280-44129-1 010 $a1-60129-852-8 010 $a0-19-972812-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000001204499 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087515 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL272265 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11303233 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44129 035 $a(OCoLC)923426276 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC272265 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001204499 100 $a20161205h19951995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMasters of small worlds $eyeoman households, gender relations, and the political culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country /$fStephanie McCurry 210 1$aNew York, New York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d1995. 210 4$dİ1995 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 320p. ) $cfacsim., map 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-507236-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis 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 330 $bIn this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practised in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the centre of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America. 606 $aPolitical culture$zSouth Carolina$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial classes$zSouth Carolina$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSex role$zSouth Carolina$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlavery$zSouth Carolina$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aSouth Carolina$xHistory$y1775-1865 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory 615 0$aSex role$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 676 $a975.703 700 $aMcCurry$b Stephanie$0982862 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791498103321 996 $aMasters of small worlds$93839030 997 $aUNINA