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Urban dreams, rural commonwealth : the rise of plantation society in the Chesapeake
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- Creator
- Paul Musselwhite
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- ©2019
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- xii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226585284, 022658528X, 9780226585314
- OCLC
- on1045665383
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: "our folly and ruining singularity" -- Garrison towns, corporate boroughs, and the search for order under the Virginia Company -- From corporate communities to county courts in the early Stuart empire -- The political geography of empire in the English revolution -- Planters, the state, and the restoration city -- Towns, improvement, and the contest for authority in the 1680s -- The imperial city and the solidifying of the plantation system -- Urban growth and country thought in the planters' golden age -- Epilogue: "this little common wealth."