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

Publication Data

• Title Motives of honor, pleasure, and profit : plantation management in the colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
• Alternative Title Motives of honor, pleasure & profit
• Author Lorena Seebach Walsh
• Contributor Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
• Publisher University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Plantations :: Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) :: Management :: History
• Tobacco industry :: Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) :: Management :: History

Motives of honor, pleasure, and profit : plantation management in the colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 by Lorena Seebach Walsh. ISBN 9780807832349. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.