Robert Cole's World Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland

Name: Robert Cole's World Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland
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ISBN: 9780807843413

ISBN-10: 0807843415

ISBN-13: 9780807843413

Edition: 1991

Authors: Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, Lorena S. Walsh

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In 1652 Robert Cole, an English Catholic, moved with his family and servants to St. Mary's County, Maryland. Using this family's story as a case study, the authors ofRobert Cole's Worldprovide an intimate portrait of the social and economic life of a middling planter in the seveneenth-century Chesapeake, including work routines and agricultural techniques, the upbringing of children, neighborhood relationships and community formation, and the role of religion. The Cole Plantation account, a record that details what the plantation produced, consumed, purchased, and sold over a twelve-year period, is the only known surviving document of its kind for seventeenth-century British America. Along…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/21/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English