Mastered by the clock : time, slavery, and freedom in the American South / Mark M. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studiesPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Edition: [First edition]Description: xx, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0807823449
  • 9780807823446
  • 0807846937
  • 9780807846933
  • 0807846686
  • 9780807846681
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Time in southern slave society -- Times democratic : clocks, watches, makers, and owners, 1700-1900 -- Taming time's pinions, weaving time's web : of times natural, sacred, and secular, 1700-1900 -- Apostles of progress, agents of time : consolidating time consciousness in the south, 1750-1865 -- Master time, 1750-1865 -- Time in African American work and culture -- New south, old time -- Times hegemonic : standard time.
Summary: 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 - particularly masters and their slaves - came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room E446 .S65 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000043642

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-291) and index.

Time in southern slave society -- Times democratic : clocks, watches, makers, and owners, 1700-1900 -- Taming time's pinions, weaving time's web : of times natural, sacred, and secular, 1700-1900 -- Apostles of progress, agents of time : consolidating time consciousness in the south, 1750-1865 -- Master time, 1750-1865 -- Time in African American work and culture -- New south, old time -- Times hegemonic : standard time.

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 - particularly masters and their slaves - came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time.

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Social aspects of time in 18th century US south

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