The Tobacco-Plantation South in the Early American Atlantic World

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Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World

ISBN: 0230111890
ISBN 13: 9780230111899
Autor: Sarson, S
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiv, 258 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.12.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Contains historiographically groundbreaking findings of extensive social-economic inequality, especially landlessness, in what many historians have previously characterised as a roughly egalitarian post-Revolutionary America. Contains historiographically groundbreaking findings of extensive materialism and individualism in what many historians have previously characterised as a pre-market rural republic Provides a uniquely detailed social history of politics among planters, yeomen, tenants, artisans, wage-workers, indentured servants, slaves, free blacks, and men and women the same and different races and classes in a local community in the early United StatesDiffers from many early national social histories by drawing on colonial Chesapeake historiography to place its findings about local economy, society, and politics in long-term post-colonial and post-revolutionary contexts

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

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

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