The Plantation - 9781570039409

The PlantationAuthor(s): Edgar Tristram Thompson, Sidney W. Mintz, George Baca\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of South Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: University of South Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781570039409, 978-1570039409\nSynopsis\nA 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 Sid.