From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Fred W.Morrison Series in Southern Studies) - Softcover

Reidy, Joseph P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807845523 ISBN 13: 9780807845523

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps, Reidy has elaborated both the large and small narratives of this development, connecting global forces with the initiatives and reactions of ordinary southerners, black and white.""--Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago ""Joseph Reidy's detailed analysis of social and economic developments in central Georgia during and after slavery will take its place among the standard works on these subjects. Its discussions of the expansion of the cotton kingdom and of the changes after emancipation make it necessary reading for all concerned with southern and African-American history.""--Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester ""Successfully places the experience of one region's people into the larger theoretical context of world capitalist development and in the process challenges other scholars to do the same.""-- Rural Sociology

About this title

Review

The most important book among 'new' emancipation studies.

Choice"

An excellent monograph to use in a U.S. history survey or in a seminar on the American South.

"Southern Economic Journal"

"Necessary reading for all concerned with southern and African-American history.

Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester"

"Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history.

Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago"

"This book is an impressive and significant contribution to southern history.

"Southern Cultures" ""An excellent monograph to use in a U.S. history survey or in a seminar on the American South.""--###Southern Economic Journal# ""Sets a splendid example for future studies. . . . Throughout this story, African Americans' struggle to build their own world with the materials available to them shines through clearly. Reidy has told their story simply and well.""--###Journal of the Early Republic#"

Necessary reading for all concerned with southern and African-American history.

Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester

Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history.

Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago

This book is an impressive and significant contribution to southern history.

"Southern Cultures" "An excellent monograph to use in a U.S. history survey or in a seminar on the American South."--###Southern Economic Journal# "Sets a splendid example for future studies. . . . Throughout this story, African Americans' struggle to build their own world with the materials available to them shines through clearly. Reidy has told their story simply and well."--###Journal of the Early Republic#

From the Back Cover

'Sets a splendid example for future studies....Throughout this story, African Americans' struggle to build their own world with the materials available to them shines through clearly. Reidy has told their story simply and well.' - Journal of the Early Republic

About this edition

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0807845523
• ISBN 13: 9780807845523
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 382