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Setting out to describe the full spectrum of everyday life in early Maryland, this work integrates a range of economic, demographic, and anthropological approaches to the study of a colony in which tobacco was the staple crop. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Explore the controversial legal history of the formation of the United States Prestatehood Legal Materials is your one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this book identifies a wide range of available resources from each state to reveal the underlying legal principles that helped form the United States. In this unique publication, a state expert compiles each chapter using his or her own style, culminating in a diverse sourcebook that is interesting as well as informative. In Prestatehood Legal Materials, you will find bibliographies, references, and discussion on a ...
A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed. 30 essays explore the history of American culture at all analytic levels Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modern day globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches include gender and sexuality and popular culture
"[A] guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood"--Back cover.
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The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a changing material culture with analysis of popular political protests, Breen shows how virtual strangers managed to communicate a sense of trust that effectively united men and women long before they had established a nation of their own. The Marketplace of Revolution argues that the colonists' shared expe...
Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland
In der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts begann in der Habsburgermonarchie ein anhaltendes Wirtschaftswachstum, das insgesamt bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg zu einer betrachtlichen Steigerung des Volkseinkommens fuhrte. Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist die Frage, wie sich die zusatzlich erwirtschafteten Einkommen auf untere und obere Schichten der Bevolkerung verteilten. Dies steht im Zusammenhang mit der allgemeinen Frage, wie sich die Wohlstandsverteilung in den Volkswirtschaften des 19. Jahrhunderts in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Beginn des modernen Wirtschaftswachstums veranderte, ob also die Zeit der Industrialisierung eine ungleichere Verteilung mit sich brachte oder nicht. ...