Title: Mastered by the clock
First published: 1997
Description: Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a promodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners - particularly masters and their slaves - came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time.
Subjects: History, Plantation life, Slavery, Social aspects, Social aspects of Time, Social conditions, Time, Plantage-economie, Sklaverei, Zeit, Südstaaten, Slavernij, Tijd, Slavery, united states, history, Southern states, social conditions
Places: Southern States
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century
LC classification: E446 .S65 1997