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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Main, Gloria L. (Gloria Lund), 1933- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982]
Colección:Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.