Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720

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.

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