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Stability and Class, Theory and History: The South in the Eighteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Edward Countryman
Edward Countryman
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Edward Countryman is Senior Lecturer in the Joint School of Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , August 1983 , pp. 243 - 250
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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2 I wish to thank Ronald Hoffman, conference organizer, for letting me have a set of the conference papers.

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