The big house after slavery Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2010.
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| Serie: | Nation divided.
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- "By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work
- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households
- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations
- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt
- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.