Format:
Online-Ressource (xx, 320 p)
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ISBN:
1280441291
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9781280441295
Content:
In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, 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 farmersextracted 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, the book shows how the fateful political choices made by the lowcountry yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household:in the cus
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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""Contents""; ""Tables""; ""1. Boundaries of Power""; ""2. Producing Independence""; ""3. Unequal Masters""; ""4. ""Like a Great Family"": Nullification Revivals and the Making of Popular Religion in the Low Country""; ""5. ""Households of Faith"": Gender, Power, and Proslavery Christianity""; ""6. Slavery, Gender, and the ""Social Fabrick,""""; ""7. Manly Resistance, Slavish Submission, and the Political Culture of the Low Country""; ""8. ""To Repel the Invaders at the Threshold""""; ""Appendix""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""
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""N""""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1280440740
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195072365
Additional Edition:
Print version Masters of Small Worlds : Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
Language:
English
