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Southern society and its transformations, 1790-1860 / edited by Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie, and Louis M. Kyriakoudes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delfino, Susanna.
- Series:
- New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.
- New currents in the history of Southern economy and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--Southern States.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 260 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Legal and extralegal dimensions of race relations
- pt. 2. The advent of the market economy and the agricultural world
- pt. 3. The rise of the middle classes
- pt. 4. Entrepreneurial and financial aspects of the transformations.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826272430
- 0826272436
- OCLC:
- 868217770
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