Daily Life in the Colonial South (Daily Life Through History Series)

Daily Life in the Colonial South (Daily Life Through History Series)

by John Schlotterbeck
Daily Life in the Colonial South (Daily Life Through History Series)

Daily Life in the Colonial South (Daily Life Through History Series)

by John Schlotterbeck

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Overview

This work examines patterns of everyday life in the colonial South from European contact to 1770, documenting how they evolved over time and differences across lines of geography, nationality, ethnicity, religion, race, gender, and class.

This work provides the first synthesis of daily life in the colonial South from the time of European arrival to 1770—a period that is often overlooked or treated briefly in most surveys on the history of the South. Daily Life in the Colonial South describes how a diverse mix of people created new patterns of living, behaving, and believing across diverse and changing physical, demographic, economic, and social environments by adapting inherited cultures in new settings.

The book emphasizes the everyday experiences of ordinary people from the Chesapeake Bay to the Lower Mississippi River, examining aspects of daily life such as work, families, possessions, food, leisure, bodies, and beliefs. It presents balanced coverage of English, French, Spanish, and Native American settlements, describing the lives of both men and women, and making use of quotes from historical documents. An introductory chapter profiles the colonial South at six periods set 50 years apart between 1500 and 1750, while the conclusion discusses colonial southern identities on the eve of the American Revolution.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313340697
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/01/2013
Series: The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Daily Life in the United States
Pages: 419
Sales rank: 715,112
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range: 14 - 17 Years

About the Author

John T. Schlotterbeck is A.W. Crandall Professor of History, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN.

Table of Contents

Preface: Souths before the South ix

Chronology xvii

1 New Societies 1

2 Labor 37

3 Families 85

4 Possessions 133

5 Food 183

6 Leisure 207

7 Bodies 245

8 Beliefs 283

9 Disorder 331

10 Identities 369

Appendix: Maps and Tables 387

Bibliography 395

Index 409

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