Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit : Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 /

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Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. She argues that, in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walsh, Lorena Seebach, 1944-
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tobacco industry > Management.
Plantations > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Tabac > Industrie > Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Gestion > Histoire.
Plantations > Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Gestion > Histoire.
Tobacco industry > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Management > History.
Plantations > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Management > History.
United States > Chesapeake Bay Region.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The plantation economy begins, 1607-1639
  • The age of the small planter, 1640-1679
  • An era of hard times : Virginia, 1680-1729
  • Strategies of adaptation and change : Maryland, the periphery, and regional divergence, 1680-1729
  • The Tidewater economy comes of age : Southern Virginia, 1730-1763
  • Managing for posterity : Rappahannock and Potomac Virginia, 1730-1763
  • Maryland, the periphery, and agricultural change, 1730-1763
  • Reassessing the Golden Age
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix I : Tobacco crop shares per laborer
  • Appendix II : Corn crop shares per laborer
  • Appendix III : Wheat crop shares per laborer.

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