Planting an Empire : The Early Chesapeake in British North America /

"Before the revolution, the Chesapeake made up one of the most prosperous and politically important regions in the mainland colonies. This book lays out the origins of, the source of earliest material success (tobacco exports) in, social developments in, and growing disparities and jealousies b...

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Main Author: Russo, Jean Burrell
Other Authors: Russo, J. Elliott
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sklaverei
Kolonialismus
Tabakindustrie
Tobacco industry.
Social conditions.
Slavery.
Economic history.
British colonies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Tabac > Industrie > Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Histoire.
Slavery > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Tobacco industry > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History.
Chesapeake-Bay-Gebiet
USA > Oststaaten
United States > Chesapeake Bay Region.
United States.
America.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amerique > Histoire.
États-Unis > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Vie religieuse.
Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Conditions sociales.
Chesapeake, Region de la baie de (Mar. et Virg.) > Conditions economiques.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Religious life and customs.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Social conditions.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue Leah and Rachel
  • 1. Great Expectations
  • 2. Troubled Times
  • 3. Transformations
  • 4. Coming Together, Moving Apart
  • 5. A Society Enslaved
  • Epilogue Grappling with an Empire
  • Notes
  • Essay on Sources
  • Index.

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