- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: Scholarly Book Services Inc (Jun 27 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0807846937
- ISBN-13: 978-0807846933
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,674,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a pre-modern, 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. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock .
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Compelling.,
By Crinoline (Seneca, SC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Paperback)
I have to admit a little bit of a bias. Dr. Smith was my teacher at the University of South Carolina, and his class was so skillfully taught that I felt compelled to read his published work.In a marketplace flooded with Civil War studies, Dr. Smith's distinguishes itself in two ways: 1)With its erudition, a quality missing from many Civil War analyses. 2) The precision of his study. By choosing time as his subject, Dr. Smith rises above the pack of Civil War literature, and creates something thoroughly new.
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An original and accessible look at time and slavery.,
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This review is from: Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Paperback)
This remarkable first book by Dr. Smith has already won two of the history profession's highest awards. The historical society named it the best book of history for 1997 and it shares the prestigious Avery O. Craven Award for the most original book on the Civil War era. Smith's observations of the slaves' adjustment to and manipulation of measured time are fascinating. The portrait of plantation life and the effect of the normalization of time on the South will be a revelation to anyone interested in Southern history.
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An original and accessible look at time and slavery.,
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This review is from: Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Paperback)
This remarkable first book by Dr. Smith has already won two of the history profession's highest awards. The historical society named it the best book of history for 1997 and it shares the prestigious Avery O. Craven Award for the most original book on the Civil War era. Smith's observations of the slaves' adjustment to and manipulation of measured time are fascinating. The portrait of plantation life and the effect of the normalization of time on the South will be a revelation to anyone interested in Southern history.
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One of the most important books on the South this decade..,
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This review is from: Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (Hardcover)
Mark Smith has produced a masterpiece. His mastery of theory and primary material is breath-taking. His willingness to take on such established scholars as Geonovese (and convince this reviewer that he is correct and they were wrong) is the mark of a confident historian. Would that all works of history were as intellectually stimulating as this. MASTERED BY THE CLOCK is an example of the historian's craft at its best--something rarely seen these days. |
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