The Plantation

by Edgar Tristram Thompson

Book Overview

The first complete publication of an overlooked gem in American intellectual history

A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "The Plantation," broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic theories of the origins of plantation societies and offered instead a richly nuanced understanding of the links between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570039410
• ISBN13: 9781570039416
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"