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Tobacco Colony : Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 / Gloria Lund Main.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 651Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1983Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691613833
  • 9781400856039
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1737109752
LOC classification:
  • HC107.M3 -- M23 1982eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One. TOBACCO COLONY -- Chapter Two. ADAPTATION UNDER FIRE -- Chapter Three. SERVANTS AND SLAVES, SLAVES AND SERVANTS -- Chapter Four. HOUSING IN EARLY MARYLAND -- Chapter Five. THE POORER PLANTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES -- Chapter Six. THE MIDDLING AND AFFLUENT PLANTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES -- Chapter Seven. 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 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter
Summary: 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 latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One. TOBACCO COLONY -- Chapter Two. ADAPTATION UNDER FIRE -- Chapter Three. SERVANTS AND SLAVES, SLAVES AND SERVANTS -- Chapter Four. HOUSING IN EARLY MARYLAND -- Chapter Five. THE POORER PLANTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES -- Chapter Six. THE MIDDLING AND AFFLUENT PLANTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES -- Chapter Seven. 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 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter

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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 latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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