The Plantation (Southern Classics) - Hardcover

Thompson, Edgar Tristram

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570039402 ISBN 13: 9781570039409

Verlag: University of South Carolina Press, 2010

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Book by Thompson Edgar Tristram

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A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, ""The Plantation,"" broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic theories of the origins of plantation societies and offered instead a richly nuanced understanding of the links between plantation culture, the global history of capitalism, and the political and economic contexts of hierarchical social classification. This first complete publication of Thompson's study makes available to modern readers one of the earliest attempts to reinterpret the history of the American South as an integral part of global processes. In this Southern Classics edition, editors Sidney W. Minz and George Baca provide a thorough introduction explicating Thompson's guiding principles and grounding his germinal work in its historical context. Thompson viewed the plantation as a political institution in which the quasi-industrial production of agricultural staples abroad through race-making labor systems solidified and advanced European state power. His interpretation marks a turning point in the scientific study of an ancient agricultural institution, in which the plantation is seen as a pioneering instrument for the expansion of the global economy. Further, his awareness of the far-reaching history of economic globalization and of the conception of race as socially constructed predicts viewpoints that have since become standard. As such, this overlooked gem in American intellectual history is still deeply relevant for ongoing research and debate in social, economic, and political history.

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The first complete publication of an overlooked gem in American intellectual history

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• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1570039402
• ISBN 13: 9781570039409
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Herausgeber: Mintz Sidney W., Baca George