Format:
1 online resource (468 pages)
ISBN:
9781469601229
Series Statement:
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Making of a Slave Society -- Sources and Methods -- Part I: The Political Economy of Tobacco -- 1. From Outpost to Slave Society, 1620-1700 -- From England to the Chesapeake -- The Age of the Small Planter -- The Great Transformation: From Servants to Slaves -- The Legacy of the Seventeenth Century -- 2. Land and Labor in the Household Economy, 1680-1800 -- Tobacco, Land, and Household Formation -- Demographic Determinants of Household Formation -- Land and Labor -- Expansion and Its Disruption -- 3. The Troubles with Tobacco, 1700-1750 -- The Tobacco Economy, 1700-1748 -- Opportunity in a Tidewater County -- The Chesapeake Frontier, 1700-1740 -- Plantation Management in Tidewater, 1700-1750 -- The Political Economy of Tobacco Regulation -- The Legacy of Depression -- 4. The Perils of Prosperity, 1740-1800 -- Prosperity and Development on the Tobacco Coast -- Credit and Economic Development -- The Political Economy of Debt -- The Decline of Opportunity in Tidewater -- The Peopling of Piedmont Virginia -- The Virginia Southside: The Best Poor Man's Country? -- The Chesapeake Frontier Disappears, 1780-1800 -- Part II: White Society -- 5. The Origins of Domestic Patriarchy among White Families -- The Demographic Basis of Domestic Patriarchy -- Husbands and Wives in the Domestic Economy -- The Family Life Cycle in the Domestic Economy, 1720-1800 -- Morality, Virtue, and the Family Economy -- Domestic Patriarchy within Chesapeake Society -- 6. From Neighborhood to Kin Group: The Development of a Clan System -- Neighborhood Communities on the Tobacco Coast -- Manly Competition, Female Cooperation -- The Parish Community -- Circles within Circles: Kinship in the Colonial Chesapeake -- Kinship and Class in the Chesapeake -- 7. The Rise of the Chesapeake Gentry -- The Making of the Gentry Class.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807842249
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780807842249
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4321938
