The plantation
By: Edgar Tristram Thompson ; edited with an introduction by Sidney W. Mintz and George Baca
Contributors: Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-; Baca, George; University of South Carolina. Institute for Southern Studies
Series: Southern classics series; Southern classics series
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781570039409; 9781570039416
Description: First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation.
Notes: "Published in Cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies of the University of South Carolina."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The plantation as a social institution; title: The metropolis and the plantation; title: The plantation in Virginia; title: Plantation management and imported labor in Virginia; title: The plantation and the frontier; title: The natural history of the plantation.