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Masters of Small Worlds Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
by McCurry, Stephanie
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- Comments: 1. In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie 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 farmers extracted 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, this work...
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- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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"For some years, books have been published on yeoman farmers, pro-slavery politics, sub-regional cultures and gender relations. But these topics have been pursued discretely or in pairs. No one, until McCurry, has tried to do all of these things at once....She is a gifted historian, engaging large questions."McCurry, Stephanie is the author of 'Masters of Small Worlds Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country' with ISBN 9780195072365 and ISBN 0195072367.
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