Mastered by the clock
Zeit
Southern states, social conditions
Slavernij
Südstaaten
Sklaverei
Slavery, united states, history
Plantation life
Time
Slavery
Social aspects
Social conditions
History
Mastered by the Clock 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 - particu…
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