Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720

by Gloria Lund Main

Overview

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.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691613833
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	07/14/2014
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #651
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• CONTENTS, pg. vii
• LIST OF TABLES, pg. ix
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xv
• INTRODUCTION, pg. 1
• Chapter One. TOBACCO COLONY, pg. 9
• Chapter Two. ADAPTATION UNDER FIRE, pg. 48
• Chapter Three. SERVANTS AND SLAVES, SLAVES AND SERVANTS, pg. 97
• Chapter Four. HOUSING IN EARLY MARYLAND, pg. 140
• Chapter Five. THE POORER PLANTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, pg. 167
• Chapter Six. THE MIDDLING AND AFFLUENT PLANTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, pg. 206
• Chapter Seven. STANDARDS, STYLES, AND PRIORITIES, pg. 240
• Appendix A. DEMOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON WEALTH IN EARLY MARYLAND, pg. 267
• Appendix B. MARYLAND CURRENCY AND PRICE FLUCTUATIONS, pg. 274
• Appendix C. PROBATE RECORDS AS A SOURCE FOR HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION, pg. 282
• Appendix D. GLOSSARY OF ROOM NAMES IN MARYLAND INVENTORIES, 1660-1719, pg. 293
• BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 297
• INDEX, pg. 311