Edgar Tristram Thompson
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English
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A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, The Plantation, broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic theories of the origins of plantation societies and offered instead a richly nuanced understanding of the links between plantation culture, the global history of capitalism, and the political and economic contexts of hierarchical...
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