Mastered by the clock
time, slavery, and freedom in the American South
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Author
Publication
1997 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
75,750 words, Guess
Page Count
303 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL661595M
- ISBN-100807823449
- OCLC Control Number36417845
- OCLC Control Numbermasteredbyclockt0000smit
- Library of Congress Control Number97007045
and 2 more
- LibraryThing363802
- Goodreads3944771
Classifications
- DDC975/.00496
- LCCE446 .S65 1997
Description
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 clock as a legitimate arbiter of time.
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Series Statement
- Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
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