Inside the Great House

by 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801413133

ISBN13:9780801413131

Release Date:October 1980

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:306 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Americas History Marriage & Family Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology

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