From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880

by Joseph P. Reidy

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807845523
• ISBN13: 9780807845523
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.8" x 9.2"