Title: The plantation :
Authors: Thompson, Edgar T.
Date: 1983
Publisher: G.K. Hall,
Physical description: xix, 194 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: The plantation compared and defined -- The theory of the plantation -- The natural history of the plantation -- The geography and ecology of the plantation -- The staples of plantation agriculture -- Plantation societies. The South ; Planters and the plantation system ; Labor ; Toward the end of the plantation cycle in the South -- Plantation societies elsewhere. The West Indies and the Guianas ; Spanish South America ; Brazil ; Hawaii and the Pacific area ; Australia and New Guinea ; Malaya and Southeast Asia ; The Dutch East Indies ; Cylon and India ; Africa : general -- The plantation's golden age. The literature of nostalgia ; Memorabilia : memoires, diaries, letters -- Fiction. Southern fiction ; Non-southers fiction ; Children's literature.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Plantations--Bibliography.