Southern society and its transformations, 1790-1860

Southern society and its transformations, 1790-1860 / edited by Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie, and Louis M. Kyriakoudes.

Other author/creator	Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
Other author/creator	Gillespie, Michele.
Other author/creator	Kyriakoudes, Louis M.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Columbia ; London : University of Missouri Press, ©2011.
Description	viii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Southern States--Economic conditions --18th century. Southern States--Economic conditions --19th century. Southern States--Social conditions --18th century. Southern States--Social conditions --19th century. Southern States--Civilization --1775-1865. Southern States--Race relations --History.

Series	New currents in the history of Southern economy and society series New currents in the history of Southern economy and society. ^A605890
Contents	"A vile, immoral, and profligate course of life" : poor whites and the enforcement of vagrancy laws in antebellum Georgia / Keri Leigh Merritt -- The lynching of slaves : race, law, and the white community in the antebellum South / Michael J. Pfeifer -- Frontier capitalism : market migration to rural central Missouri, 1815-1860 / Jeff Bremer -- "Anything...that would pay" : yeoman farmers and the nascent market economy on the antebellum plantation frontier / Gary T. Edwards -- "Chased out on the slippery ice" : rural wage laborers in Baltimore's hinterlands, 1815-1860 / Max L. Grivno -- Professionalization and the Southern middle class / Jonathan Daniel Wells -- Education and professionals in the Old South : schooling's impact on career and social class / Jennifer R. Green -- Corporate entrepreneurship in the antebellum South / Robert E. Wright -- "In pursuit of their livelihood" : credit and debt relations among Natchez planters in the 1820s / Elbra David.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	Aufsatzsammlung.
ISBN	9780826219183
ISBN	0826219187

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	F213 .S68 2011	✔ Available	Place Hold