Tobacco colony : life in early Maryland, 1650-1720 /
Setting out to describe the full spectrum of everyday life in early Maryland, this work integrates a range of economic, demographic, and anthropological approaches to the study of a colony in which tobacco was the staple crop. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the lates...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[1982]
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| Loạt: | Princeton legacy library
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zvk1d |
Mục lục:
- Tobacco colony
- Adaptation under fire
- Servants and slaves, slaves and servants
- Housing in early Maryland
- The poorer planters and their families
- The middling and affluent planters and their families
- Standards, styles, and priorities
- Appendix A: Demographic effects on wealth in early Maryland
- Appendix B: Maryland currency and price fluctuations
- Appendix C: Probate records as a source for historical investigation
- Appendix D: Glossary of room names in Maryland inventories, 1660-1719
- Appendix E: Glossary of room names in English farmhouses, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.