The Tobacco-Plantation South in the Early American Atlantic World

S. Sarson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-11189-9 (ISBN)

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A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial historiography to take a groundbreaking approach and examines the profound impacts of the structure of the international tobacco trade on local life.

STEVEN SARSON is a Lecturer in the Department of History, at Swansea University, UK.

Introduction: The "Chosen People": Agrarian Myths and Messier Realities Prologue: "The Interest of the County": Prince George's County Levy Court and Local Politics, Economy, and Society "The Way to Make a Huge Fortune": The Planters "One must differentiate oneself a little": Planter Gentility, Economy, Dynasty, and Politics "I Don't Stand to the Will": Yeomen Farmers and Smallholders "Being Allowed the Liberty": Tenant Farmers and Artisans "The Torment with the Servants": Wage Workers, Servants, and Slaves Epilogue: "Objects of Distress": The Poor and the Destitute Appendix: A Statistical Analysis of Wealth Distribution and Mobility

Reihe/Serie	Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 258 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-230-11189-0 / 0230111890
ISBN-13	978-0-230-11189-9 / 9780230111899
Zustand	Neuware