Author: Paul G. Clemens
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, cash grains were introduced on Maryland's Eastern Shore and eventually replaced tobacco as market crops. What factors brought about this shift from tobacco production to diversified agriculture, and what were its effects on the people living there? This book charts the early social and economic history of the Eastern Shore, focusing on the ways in which Atlantic commerce shaped the lives of English settlers between 1620 and 1776. Professor Clemens is concerned with the relationship between changes in society brought about by local economic circumstances and those created by international market conditions. He also points out the distinctive balance between commercial agriculture and self-sufficiency farming that was achieved on the Eastern Shore. Offering a new perspective on early American history, his book not only depicts the growth of a particular region in colonial America but places that growth in the broader context of both the Atlantic market economy and the economies of other English New World settlements.
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore
Author: Paul G. Clemens
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, cash grains were introduced on Maryland's Eastern Shore and eventually replaced tobacco as market crops. What factors brought about this shift from tobacco production to diversified agriculture, and what were its effects on the people living there? This book charts the early social and economic history of the Eastern Shore, focusing on the ways in which Atlantic commerce shaped the lives of English settlers between 1620 and 1776. Professor Clemens is concerned with the relationship between changes in society brought about by local economic circumstances and those created by international market conditions. He also points out the distinctive balance between commercial agriculture and self-sufficiency farming that was achieved on the Eastern Shore. Offering a new perspective on early American history, his book not only depicts the growth of a particular region in colonial America but places that growth in the broader context of both the Atlantic market economy and the economies of other English New World settlements.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, cash grains were introduced on Maryland's Eastern Shore and eventually replaced tobacco as market crops. What factors brought about this shift from tobacco production to diversified agriculture, and what were its effects on the people living there? This book charts the early social and economic history of the Eastern Shore, focusing on the ways in which Atlantic commerce shaped the lives of English settlers between 1620 and 1776. Professor Clemens is concerned with the relationship between changes in society brought about by local economic circumstances and those created by international market conditions. He also points out the distinctive balance between commercial agriculture and self-sufficiency farming that was achieved on the Eastern Shore. Offering a new perspective on early American history, his book not only depicts the growth of a particular region in colonial America but places that growth in the broader context of both the Atlantic market economy and the economies of other English New World settlements.
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore
Author: Paul G. Clemens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608010120
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608010120
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Marylands Eastern Shore
Author: Paul G. E. Clemens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern Shore, Md
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern Shore, Md
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Atlantic Economy During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Peter A. Coclanis
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570035548
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin - comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas - during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors examine the complex and variegated processes by which markets were created in the Atlantic basin and how they became integrated. While a number of the contributors focus on the economic history of a specific European imperial system, others, mirroring the realities of the world they are writing about, transcend imperial boundaries and investigate topics shared throughout the region. In the latter case, the contributors focus either on processes occurring along the margins or interstices of empires, or on breaches in the colonial systems established by various European powers. Taken together, the essays shed much-needed light on the organization and operation of both the European imperial orders of the early modern era and the increasingly integrated economy of the Atlantic basin challenging these orders over the course of the same period.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570035548
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin - comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas - during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors examine the complex and variegated processes by which markets were created in the Atlantic basin and how they became integrated. While a number of the contributors focus on the economic history of a specific European imperial system, others, mirroring the realities of the world they are writing about, transcend imperial boundaries and investigate topics shared throughout the region. In the latter case, the contributors focus either on processes occurring along the margins or interstices of empires, or on breaches in the colonial systems established by various European powers. Taken together, the essays shed much-needed light on the organization and operation of both the European imperial orders of the early modern era and the increasingly integrated economy of the Atlantic basin challenging these orders over the course of the same period.
Economy and Society in Early Colonial Maryland
Author: Russell R. Menard
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Voices from Colonial America: Maryland 1634-1776
Author: Robin Doak
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426301438
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
An introduction to colonial Maryland, describing the history, economy, and daily life of the colony.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426301438
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
An introduction to colonial Maryland, describing the history, economy, and daily life of the colony.
Colonial Maryland, a History
Author: Aubrey C. Land
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"Myne Owne Ground"
Author: T. H. Breen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195175379
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195175379
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
Colonial Families on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Author: Robert W. Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Maryland's Eastern Shore
Author: John R. Wennersten
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"A hundred years ain't such a very long time on the Eastern Shore," local farmers and watermen used to say, and that is a telling refrain. Past and present mix easily on the Shore, and, in this respect, as well as in certain local customs and habits of language, the region is very much still an old-fashioned English society. Until fairly recently, the peninsula was one of the most geographically isolated regions on the Atlantic coast. In this isolated society, the most important factors have been agriculture, seafaring, and race--a blend of soil, sea, and soul. In his attempt to convey the special character of the region--before accelerating change affects its transformation--John Wennersten has used these themes as a framework for an absorbing narrative. His insights into how these elements affected the development of the area and its current character take the story of the Eastern Shore beyond mere facts and into the realm of socio-cultural history. This is a fascinating overview of an unusual--and perhaps vanishing--lifestyle.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"A hundred years ain't such a very long time on the Eastern Shore," local farmers and watermen used to say, and that is a telling refrain. Past and present mix easily on the Shore, and, in this respect, as well as in certain local customs and habits of language, the region is very much still an old-fashioned English society. Until fairly recently, the peninsula was one of the most geographically isolated regions on the Atlantic coast. In this isolated society, the most important factors have been agriculture, seafaring, and race--a blend of soil, sea, and soul. In his attempt to convey the special character of the region--before accelerating change affects its transformation--John Wennersten has used these themes as a framework for an absorbing narrative. His insights into how these elements affected the development of the area and its current character take the story of the Eastern Shore beyond mere facts and into the realm of socio-cultural history. This is a fascinating overview of an unusual--and perhaps vanishing--lifestyle.