UID:
almafu_9960117213002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxxii, 275 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-50641-0
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1-108-51535-5
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1-316-48118-2
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies on the American South
Content:
This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930-2012), with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a penetrating study of slaveholders and their families in both intimate and domestic settings: at home; attending the theatre; going on vacations to spas and springs; throwing parties; hunting; gambling; drinking and entertaining guests, completing a comprehensive portrait of the slaveholders and the world that they built with slaves. Genovese subtly but powerfully demonstrates how much politics, economics, and religion shaped, informed, and made possible these leisure activities. A fascinating investigation of a little-studied aspect of planter life, The Sweetness of Life broadens our understanding of the world that the slaveholders and their slaves made; a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Manuscript collections -- Introduction -- 1 A Gracious People -- Hospitality -- Costs and Inconveniences -- The Libraries of Generous Neighbors -- Townhouses -- 2 Dining Room, Parlor, and Lawn -- At Table -- Breakfast, Supper, and Outdoor Dining -- "The Pride of Our Tables" -- A Small Matter of Refrigeration -- Credit Where Due -- Upcountry Dining -- Pianos -- The Reading Circle -- Home Schooling -- Chambers and Master Bedrooms -- A Peculiarity -- 3 Horses and Hounds -- Under Scrutiny -- Carriages -- Horses and Their Riders -- Hunting and Fishing -- Guns -- 4 Vignettes -- Ladies of Fashion -- Gentlemen Plain and Fancy -- Dancing -- Theater and Opera -- The Circus -- Christmas Holidays -- 5 Vignettes -- Scandals -- Sexual Boundaries -- Vicissitudes of Courting -- A Playful Provocation -- 6 Home Away from Home -- Hunting and Entertaining -- Costs: Financial and Political -- Summer Adjustments -- Summertime Politics -- 7 Matters Not So Sweet -- The Mangum Saga -- Cash-Poor Rich Men -- Lure of the Turf -- High Rollers and Low -- Good Wine and Mean Whiskey -- Laudanum and Other Pleasantries -- Editor's Epilogue -- II -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-13805-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-50289-9
Language:
English
