Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit : Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763.
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TextSeries: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press SeriesPublisher: Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (733 pages)Content type: - text
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- 338.109752/09032
- HD1471.U52.C488 2010
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Plantation Economy Begins, 1607-1639 -- CHAPTER 2. The Age of the Small Planter, 1640-1679 -- CHAPTER 3. An Era of Hard Times: Virginia, 1680-1729 -- CHAPTER 4. Strategies of Adaptation and Change: Maryland, the Periphery, and Regional Divergence, 1680-1729 -- CHAPTER 5. The Tidewater Economy Comes of Age: Southern Virginia, 1730-1763 -- CHAPTER 6. Managing for Posterity: Rappahannock and Potomac Virginia, 1730-1763 -- CHAPTER 7. Maryland, the Periphery, and Agricultural Change, 1730-1763 -- CHAPTER 8. Reassessing the Golden Age -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Tobacco Crop Shares per Laborer -- Appendix 2. Corn Crop Shares per Laborer -- Appendix 3. Wheat Crop Shares per Laborer -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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