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Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 /
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 ec...
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Columbia [Mo.] :
University of Missouri Press,
2011
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| Collection: | New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.
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Table des matières:
- "A vile, immoral, and profligate course of life" : poor whites and the enforcement of vagrancy laws in antebellum Georgia / Keri Leigh Merritt
- The lynching of slaves : race, law, and the white community in the antebellum South / Michael J. Pfeifer
- Frontier capitalism : market migration to rural central Missouri, 1815-1860 / Jeff Bremer
- "Anything...that would pay" : yeoman farmers and the nascent market economy on the antebellum plantation frontier / Gary T. Edwards
- "Chased out on the slippery ice" : rural wage laborers in Baltimore's hinterlands, 1815-1860 / Max L. Grivno
- Professionalization and the Southern middle class / Jonathan Daniel Wells
- Education and professionals in the Old South : schooling's impact on career and social class / Jennifer R. Green
- Corporate entrepreneurship in the antebellum South / Robert E. Wright
- "In pursuit of their livelihood" : credit and debt relations among Natchez planters in the 1820s / Elbra David.