The plantation

The plantation / Edgar Tristram Thompson ; edited with an introduction by Sidney W. Mintz and George Baca.

First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thompson, Edgar T. (Edgar Tristram), 1900-1989
Corporate Author:	University of South Carolina. Institute for Southern Studies
Other Authors:	Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred), 1922-2015, Baca, George
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2010.
Series:	Southern classics series.
Subjects:	Plantations. Plantations > Economic aspects > Southern States. Plantations > Economic aspects > Virginia. Land tenure > Southern States. Land tenure > Virginia. Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century. Virginia > Economic conditions > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

The plantation as a social institution
The metropolis and the plantation
The plantation in Virginia
Plantation management and imported labor in Virginia
The plantation and the frontier
The natural history of the plantation.