Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, & the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country: Yeoman Households, ... of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country - Softcover

McCurry, Stephanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195117956 ISBN 13: 9780195117950

Publisher: Oxford University Press USA, 1995

Synopsis

In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which these small-holdings landowners achieved status from the region's powerful planters.

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Masters of Small Worlds In this study of the South Carolina Low Country, the author explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society - the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society they turned to their advantage. Full description

Review:

"Masters of Small Worlds...is of interest not only for the local matter of South Carolina, but as one test of whether `race, class, and gender' can...make a history and not just a battlecry....McCurry offers an abundance of insight, information and anecdote. She is a gifted historian, engaging large questions."―The Times Literary Supplement

"...a well-researched and detailed study....Masters of Small Worlds is an extremely valuable work....a bold and convincing history...that will clearly be required reading for Southern historians, women's historians, and American social historians."―Southern Historian

"The subtlety and texture of her interpretations offer a model for future studies of this class elsewhere in the antebellum South."―American Historical Review

"Stephanie McCurry's superb study of antebellum South Carolina deserves a place on the shelves and reading lists of all historians of the South and the Civil War....This is one of the best books on Southern social history I have ever read. Sophisticated in technique and subtle in analysis, Masters of Small Worlds carries that analysis into politics to produce strikingly original insights that will have an impact on Southern historiography for years to come."―H-Net Book Review Project

"Masters of Small Worlds is a strikingly original work, one which manages to say important new things about subjects that have attracted the attention of generations of scholars―the foundations of proslavery thought and the road to the Civil War. It is difficult to think of a work of American history that more successfully integrates the "public" and "private" realms of life, or that demonstrates more persuasively the centrality of gender as a category for understanding American political thought."―Eric Foner, Professor of History, Columbia University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0195117956
• ISBN 13: 9780195117950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344