Inside the Great House : Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society /

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Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century-a pivotal era in the history of the American family. Drawing on a wide assortment of personal documents-among them wills, inventories, diaries, family letters,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Daniel Blake
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1980.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plantation life.
Families.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Vie dans les plantations > Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Familles > Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Plantation life > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History > 18th century.
Plantation life > Chesapeake Bay region > History > 18th century.
Families > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History > 18th century.
United States > Chesapeake Bay Region.
Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Virginie > Moeurs et coutumes > 1775-1783.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Social life and customs.
Virginia > Social life and customs > 1775-1783.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Sources
  • Introduction
  • 1. Autonomy and Affection: Parents and Children in Chesapeake Families
  • 2. Sex Roles and Female Identity
  • 3. Fathers and Sons: The Meaning of Deference and Duty in the Family
  • 4. Vowing Protection and Obedience: Husbands and Wives in a Planter Society
  • 5. Kin, Friends, and Neighbors: The Social World beyond the Family
  • 6. Providing for the Living: Inheritance and the Family
  • 7. Bonds of Suffering: The Family in Illness and Death
  • 8. Toward a History of Early American Family Life
  • Index

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