Tobacco Colony : Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 /

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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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Main Author: Main, Gloria L. (Gloria Lund), 1933- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tobacco industry.
Plantation life.
Economic history.
Cost and standard of living.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Tabac > Industrie > Maryland > Histoire.
Vie dans les plantations > Maryland > Histoire.
Coût et niveau de la vie > Maryland > Histoire.
Tobacco industry > Maryland > History.
Plantation life > Maryland > History.
Cost and standard of living > Maryland > History.
Maryland.
Maryland > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Maryland > Conditions economiques.
Maryland > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Maryland > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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