Plantation societies, race relations, and the South
Subtitle: the regimentation of populations : selected papers of Edgar T. Thompson.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Plantation life -- Southern States; Slavery -- United States; Southern States -- Social conditions; Southern States -- Race relations
Notes: Bibliography: p. [395]-407.
Table of contents: title: The plantation: background and definition.; title: Mines and plantations and the movements of peoples.; title: Comparative education in colonial areas, with special reference to plantation and mission frontiers.; title: The climatic theory of the plantation.; title: The plantation: the physical basis of traditional race relations.; title: The plantation as a race-making situation.; title: Language and race relations.; title: The idea of race and the race problem.; title: Race in the modern world.; title: School desegregation.; title: The "little races."; title: Sociology and sociological research in the South.; title: The planter in the pattern of race relations in the South.; title: The natural history of agricultural labor in the South.; title: Purpose and tradition in Southern rural society.; title: The South and the second emancipation.; title: The South in old and new contexts.; title: God and the Southern plantation system.