Urban dreams, rural commonwealth : the rise of plantation society in the Chesapeake /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | American beginnings, 1500-1900.
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Table of Contents:
- 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."