Mastered by the clock : time, slavery, and freedom in the American South / Mark M. Smith.
Mastered by the clock : time, slavery, and freedom in the American South / Mark M. Smith.
Mastered by the clock : time, slavery, and freedom in the American South / Mark M. Smith.
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997.
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N975.00496/3
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English
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xx, 303 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction. Time in Southern Slave Society -- 1. Times Democratic: Clocks, Watches, Makers, and Owners, 1700-1900 -- 2. Taming Time's Pinions, Weaving Time's Web: Of Times Natural, Sacred, and Secular, 1700-1900 -- 3. Apostles of Progress, Agents of Time: Consolidating Time Consciousness in the So...
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997.
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North Carolina
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a promodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners - particularly masters and their slaves - came to view the...
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Mastered by the clock : time, slavery, and freedom in the American South / Mark M. Smith.
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Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-291) and index.
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c1997.
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N975.00496/3
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74VMygBeBkGO
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0807846937 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807823446 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807823449 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807846933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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975.00496
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991002118779702626
