Smith, Mark M., (Mark Michael)

Mastered by the clock: time, slavery, and freedom in the American South

by Smith, Mark M., (Mark Michael)

fromFred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

0 Type: Book

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 - par…

Mastered by the clock: time, slavery, and freedom in the American South

by Smith, Mark M., (Mark Michael)

fromFred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

0 Type: Book

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 - par…