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

Stowe, Professor Steven

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Stowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.

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"Impossible for a brief review to do justice to this intricately woven book, filled as it is with intriguing detail that, whatever it reveals about the collective consciousness, is guaranteed to engage the interest of any committed historian of the South." -- American Historical Review

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ISBN 10:  0801841135 ISBN 13:  9780801841132
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
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