American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation

American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation Guterl Matthew Pratt Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 2013 ISBN: 9780674072282 Liczba stron: 250 Format: 157 x 232 x 16 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: How did slave-owning Southerners make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers and examines how the Southern elite connected-by travel, print culture, even the prospect of future conquest-with communities of New World slaveholders as they redefined their world.