The big house after slavery : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / / Amy Feely Morsman

• Autore: Morsman Amy Feely <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.5/03
• Soggetto topico: Plantation life - Virginia - History - 19th century; Plantation owners - Virginia - History - 19th century; Families - Virginia - History - 19th century; Social change - Virginia - History - 19th century; Man-woman relationships - Virginia - History - 19th century; Sex role - Virginia - History - 19th century; Marriage - Virginia - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Virginia Social life and customs 19th century; Virginia Economic conditions 19th century; Virginia Politics and government 1865-1950
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work -- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households -- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations -- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt -- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.
• Sommario/riassunto: Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried forward by their adult children away from the crumbling plantations and into the urban households of the New South.
• Titolo autorizzato: The big house after slavery
• ISBN: 1-280-49038-1; 9786613585615; 0-8139-3008-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817327203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nation divided.