Motives of honor, pleasure, and profit
Subtitle: plantation management in the colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
By: Lorena S. Walsh
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Series: Colonial Williamsburg studies in Chesapeake history and culture; Colonial Williamsburg studies in Chesapeake history and culture
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press; Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780807832349
Other titles: Motives of honor, pleasure & profit
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The plantation economy begins, 1607-1639; title: The age of the small planter, 1640-1679; title: An era of hard times : Virginia, 1680-1729; title: Strategies of adaptation and change : Maryland, the periphery, and regional divergence, 1680-1729; title: The Tidewater economy comes of age : Southern Virginia, 1730-1763; title: Managing for posterity : Rappahannock and Potomac Virginia, 1730-1763; title: Maryland, the periphery, and agricultural change, 1730-1763; title: Reassessing the Golden Age; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix I : Tobacco crop shares per laborer; title: Appendix II : Corn crop shares per laborer; title: Appendix III : Wheat crop shares per laborer.