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

by Daniel Blake Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801493803
• ISBN13: 9780801493805
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"