| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 449 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The political economy of tobacco. From outpost to slave society, 1620-1700 -- Land and labor in the household economy, 1680-1800 -- The troubles with tobacco, 1700-1750 -- The perils of prosperity, 1740-1800 -- pt. 2. White society. The origins of domestic patriarchy among white families -- From neighborhood to kin group : the development of a clan system -- The rise of the Chesapeake gentry -- pt. 3. Black society. From Africa to the Chesapeake : origins of black society -- Beginnings of the Afro-American family -- Slavery and segregation : race relations in the Chesapeake -- Afterword : the birth of the Old South. |
| Summary |
This book is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, the author provides a comprehensive study of changing social relations--among both blacks and whites--in the eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Economic conditions.
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Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social conditions.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects. |
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History. |
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Tobacco industry -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History.
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Tobacco industry. |
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Plantation life -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History.
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Plantation life. |
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Slavery -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History.
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Slavery. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 85008452 (OCoLC)12081526 |
| ISBN |
9781469601229 (electronic book) |
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1469601222 (electronic book) |
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080781671X |
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9780807816714 |
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