Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)

By Steven Stowe and Steven M. Stowe

Book Overview

Steven M. Stowe examines three types of ritual central to the elite planter culture of the pre-Civil War South: the affair of honor, courtship, and coming of age. Using these rituals as forman maps of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801833884
• ISBN13: 9780801833885
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"