Motives of honor, pleasure, and profit : plantation management in the colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 /
Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. She argues that, in...
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
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| Series: | Colonial Williamsburg studies in Chesapeake history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- The plantation economy begins, 1607-1639
- The age of the small planter, 1640-1679
- An era of hard times : Virginia, 1680-1729
- Strategies of adaptation and change : Maryland, the periphery, and regional divergence, 1680-1729
- The Tidewater economy comes of age : Southern Virginia, 1730-1763
- Managing for posterity : Rappahannock and Potomac Virginia, 1730-1763
- Maryland, the periphery, and agricultural change, 1730-1763
- Reassessing the Golden Age
- Epilogue
- Appendix I : Tobacco crop shares per laborer
- Appendix II : Corn crop shares per laborer
- Appendix III : Wheat crop shares per laborer.
