TY - BOOK AU - Thompson,Edgar T. AU - Mintz,Sidney Wilfred AU - Baca,George ED - University of South Carolina. TI - The plantation T2 - Southern classics series SN - 9781570039409 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - HD1471.A3 T49 2010 U1 - 307.72 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Columbia, S.C. PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Plantations KW - Economic aspects KW - Southern States KW - Virginia KW - Land tenure KW - Economic conditions KW - 19th century N1 - "Published in Cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies of the University of South Carolina."; Includes bibliographical references and index; The plantation as a social institution -- The metropolis and the plantation -- The plantation in Virginia -- Plantation management and imported labor in Virginia -- The plantation and the frontier -- The natural history of the plantation N2 - First full publication of Edgar Thompson's 1932 dissertation on the economics of the plantation ER -