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Unification of a Slave State - The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808 - Bok av Rachel N. Klein - Häftad

Unification of a Slave State - The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808 - Bok av Rachel N. Klein - Häftad

This book describes the turbulent transformation of South Carolina from a colony rent by sectional conflict into a state dominated by the South's most unified and politically powerful planter leadership. Rachel Klein unravels the sources of conflict and growing unity, showing how a deep commitment to slavery enabled leaders from both low- and backcountry to define the terms of political and ideological compromise.The spread of cotton into the backcountry, often invoked as the reason for South Carolina's..

SEK 840.00
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Dreaming of Dixie - How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture - Bok av Karen L. Cox - Häftad

Dreaming of Dixie - How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture - Bok av Karen L. Cox - Häftad

From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, and the chivalrous planter. Karen Cox shows that the chief purveyors of this constructed nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region.

SEK 616.00
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William Alexander Percy - The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker - Bok av Benjamin E. Wise - Häftad

William Alexander Percy - The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker - Bok av Benjamin E. Wise - Häftad

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.

SEK 756.00
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The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens - Bok av Rod Andrew Jr. - Häftad

The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens - Bok av Rod Andrew Jr. - Häftad

Andrew Pickens (1739-1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the Patriot cause, and struggles over Indian territorial boundaries on the southern frontier. Combining..

SEK 696.00
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