Motives of honor, pleasure, and profit : plantation management in the colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763

Motives of honor, pleasure, and profit : plantation management in the colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763

Motives of honor, pleasure & profit

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

xxvi, 704 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

338.1 W223 2010

(OCoLC)436358395

Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-673) and index.
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.
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