Inside the Great House Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society

Name: Inside the Great House Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society
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ISBN: 9780801493805

ISBN-10: 0801493803

ISBN-13: 9780801493805

Edition: 1986

Authors: Daniel Blake Smith

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Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century--a pivotal era in the history of the American family. Drawing on a wide assortment of personal documents--among them wills, inventories, diaries, family letters, memoirs, and autobiographies--as well as on the insights of such disciplines as psychology, demography, and anthropology, Daniel Blake Smith examines family values and behavior in a plantation society. Focusing on the emotional texture of the household, he probes deeply into personal values and relationships within the family and the surrounding circle of kin. Childrearing practices,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/3/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English