Intimacy and Power in the Old South

Ritual in the Lives of the Planters

Steven Stowe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:1st Oct '90

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Intimacy and Power in the Old South cover

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

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

ISBN: 9780801841132

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 482g

336 pages