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This 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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Mastered by the Clock
  • Author : Mark Michael Smith
  • Release : 20 September 1997
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • ISBN : 0807846686
  • Genre : Plantation life
  • Total Page : 303 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 15,8 Mb

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