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...
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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...
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Good. Signed Copy Collectible-Good. Good dust jacket. Two tickets to "Malice Domestic" at which Elizabeth Peters was guest of honor are laid in. Barbara G. Mertz's signature on front endpage. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on front pastedown. (Anthropology, Social Science, Families, Plantation Life, Mid-Atlantic)