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Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Politic...
McCurry, Stephanie
Oxford University Press, USA 5/11/95 0195072367 / 9780195072365 Hardcover New - dust jacket preserved with soft mylar, clear archival cover
In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society, the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, the book shows how the fateful political choices made by the lowcountry yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household
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