Gloria L Main
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 299355 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gloria L Main |
| PRENOMES | Gloria L |
| SOBRENOME | Main |
| ASSINATURA | MAIN G L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
M. Michelle Jarrett Morris. Under Household Government
Not until the emergence of the new social history almost half a century ago did the gender roles and sexual behavior of early Americans become objects of sustained historical inquiry. Early efforts were heavily demographic and descriptive in content, but feminist historians quickly broadened the nature of the genre while rejecting its obsession with numbers. In the two works under review here, authors M. Michelle Jarrett Morris and Mark E. Kann t…
Women on the Edge
The port cities of the early republic were creatures of a dynamic but volatile international economy, highly susceptible to sudden shocks and the ups and downs of unpredictable business cycles. Because the urban job market depended on long-distance trade, employment and wages rose and fell with the level of commerce. City inhabitants strove to ride the crests and cushion the shocks, but how well did they do, for themselves and for each other? The…
Building the Bay Colony
Book Review| October 01 2009 Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts. James E. Mc Williams. Gloria Main Gloria Main Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 538–539. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.4.538 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Dat…
Stray Wives
“Early national” here means 1790 to 1830, and “New England” is represented by Hartford County, Connecticut; Windsor County, Vermont; and occasionally all of Vermont. Mary Beth Sievens uses desertion notices in newspapers and divorce cases to explore the condition of married women in a period she characterizes as one of unusual economic and social change. Most of the notices were inserted by husbands as public warnings that they would no longer be…
Rocking the Cradle
Between 1790 and 1840, median completed family size in New England genealogies fell by half. Age at marriage rose only moderately during this period, but the rate of premarital pregnancy plummeted, intervals between births lengthened, and mothers' age at last birth fell to thirty-seven. Analysis of the number of children born to a subset of mothers younger than thirty in various Connecticut and New Hampshire towns c. 1818 suggests that couples' m…
Peoples of a Spacious Land
In this book about families--those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants--Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common human problems. Using original sources--diaries, inventories, wills, court records--as well as the findings of demographers, ethnologists, and cultural anthropologists, she compares the family life of the English colonists…
Peoples of a Spacious Land
Black Rice
Book Review| March 01 2004 Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas Judith A. Carney Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001 xiv + 240 pp.,$40.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper) Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (1): 136–138. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-1-136 Cite Icon Cite Share Ico…
Peoples of a Spacious Land
In this book about families - those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants - Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common human problems. Using original sources - diaries, inventories, wills, court records - as well as the findings of demographers, ethnologists, and cultural anthropologists, she compares the family life of the English colon…
Peoples of a Spacious Land
Journal Article Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England. By Gloria L. Main. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xiv, 316 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-674-00628-3.) Get access Michael Zuckerman Michael Zuckerman University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 610–611, h…
Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World
The merchants of the title were the richest businessmen of Boston and Salem. All were involved in shipping, but they also ran local businesses, loaned money, and underwrote insurance. Many, though not all, served in local or provincial office, patronized local artists and craftsmen, and dispensed charity. In the later colonial period, they belonged to numerous clubs and subscribed to social libraries. The argument of the book, such as it is, is t…
New England's Population Bomb
Many Things Forgotten
people did not own guns before the middle of the nineteenth century because guns had been too expensive, unreliable, and not all that useful.1 The advent of mass production and aggressive advertizing by domestic arms manufacturers, Bellesiles argues, boosted the levels of ownership, contributed to rising rates of interpersonal violence among white men, and created a national gun culture centered on the possession and display of firearms. Much of …
The Red Queen in New England
OME historical images endure in spite of evidence to the contrary, perhaps because they coincide with scholars' deepest convictions about how things must have been. Despite persistent notions otherwise, colonial New England's economy was flourishing in the eighteenth century. It was not British America's poorest region, and it was not in dire economic straits on the eve of the Revolution.' Landless multitudes were indeed crowding into port cities…
The Great Migration Begins
A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves
Starting Points: Region, Town and Site: 1. Transforming space into place 2. Beginning the research Part II. Ruling the Province: 3. On behalf of his lordship 4. Governor Benedict Leonard Calvert Part II. Big Features and Topological Dimensions: 5. 'A house well built and with much strength' 6. Ordering nature: the Calvert orangery, garden and vista Part IV. Mosaics Built From Little Artifacts: 7. Touches of Chinese elegance: pottery and porcelain…
Naming Children in Early New England
En Nouvelle-Angleterre, l'attribution du nom evolua entre le 17 eme et le 18 eme siecle. Les prenoms des enfants apres avoir ete donnes en fonction de ceux des grands-parents puis des parents devinrent plus varies : noms de la Bible, diminutifs et autres. Les varietes regionales presentent des cultures et des evolutions culturelles differentes des populations venues d'Angleterre s'installer en Amerique
Tobacco in History
Journal Article Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence. By Jordan Goodman. (New York: Routledge, 1993. xii, 280 pp. $59-95, ISBN 0-415-04963-6.) Get access Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1670, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081663 Published: 01 March 1995
Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England
Consumers Anonymous
Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798
Journal Article Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798. by Lee Soltow. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. xx + 328 pp. $49.95.) Get access Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1342–1343, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078293 Published: 01 March 1991
An Inquiry Into When and Why Women Learned to Write in Colonial New England
Journal Article An Inquiry Into When and Why Women Learned to Write in Colonial New England Get access Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, Co. 80309 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 24, Issue 3, Spring 1991, Pages 579–589, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/24.3.579 Published: 01 March 1991
Reading becomes a Necessity of Life
Authority and Resistance in Early New York
Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640-1774
This study draws upon a large sample of probated estates from early Connecticut and Massachusetts. It finds that total probate wealth per adult male grew slowly over the colonial period and its growth was confined entirely to real estate. The value of consumption goods per estate fell during the early eighteenth century which raises questions about the impact of economic growth on household life
A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves
Starting Points: Region, Town and Site: 1. Transforming space into place 2. Beginning the research Part II. Ruling the Province: 3. On behalf of his lordship 4. Governor Benedict Leonard Calvert Part II. Big Features and Topological Dimensions: 5. 'A house well built and with much strength' 6. Ordering nature: the Calvert orangery, garden and vista Part IV. Mosaics Built From Little Artifacts: 7. Touches of Chinese elegance: pottery and porcelain…
Naming Children in Early New England
En Nouvelle-Angleterre, l'attribution du nom evolua entre le 17 eme et le 18 eme siecle. Les prenoms des enfants apres avoir ete donnes en fonction de ceux des grands-parents puis des parents devinrent plus varies : noms de la Bible, diminutifs et autres. Les varietes regionales presentent des cultures et des evolutions culturelles differentes des populations venues d'Angleterre s'installer en Amerique
Rocking the Cradle
Between 1790 and 1840, median completed family size in New England genealogies fell by half. Age at marriage rose only moderately during this period, but the rate of premarital pregnancy plummeted, intervals between births lengthened, and mothers' age at last birth fell to thirty-seven. Analysis of the number of children born to a subset of mothers younger than thirty in various Connecticut and New Hampshire towns c. 1818 suggests that couples' m…
Inequality in Early America
of Massachusetts and Maryland The distribution of wealth in America is highly unequal now and was even more unequal a hundred years ago. If the distribution of slaves in I790 is a trustworthy guide, inequality, in the South at least, was already high in the earliest years of the Republic (see Table I). A careful probing of the census data on wealth-holding for the years I850, 1860, and 1870 persuaded one investigator that the distribution of weal…
Probate Records as a Source for Early American History
HE varieties of human experience are not infinite, and the understanding of man proceeds through the study of the one, the few, and the many. Historians traditionally have concentrated on the first by focusing on the thoughts and actions of prominent individuals moving within a specific social and cultural milieu about which the researcher possesses a more or less clear picture. That picture, alas, is often the result of a series of camera's-eye …
Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640-1774
This study draws upon a large sample of probated estates from early Connecticut and Massachusetts. It finds that total probate wealth per adult male grew slowly over the colonial period and its growth was confined entirely to real estate. The value of consumption goods per estate fell during the early eighteenth century which raises questions about the impact of economic growth on household life
Colonial British America
Journal Article Colonial Biitish America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era. Ed. by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. xi + 508 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $28.50; paper, $14.95.) Get access Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984…
Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England
Early Maryland in a Wider World
Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689-1692
Journal Article Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689–1692. By Lois Green Carr and David William Jordan. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1974. xviii + 321 pp. Map, tables, appendix, notes, note on sources, and index. $15.00.) Get access Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main Setauket, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 4, March 1975, Pages 1076–1077, …
The Red Queen in New England
OME historical images endure in spite of evidence to the contrary, perhaps because they coincide with scholars' deepest convictions about how things must have been. Despite persistent notions otherwise, colonial New England's economy was flourishing in the eighteenth century. It was not British America's poorest region, and it was not in dire economic straits on the eve of the Revolution.' Landless multitudes were indeed crowding into port cities…
An Inquiry Into When and Why Women Learned to Write in Colonial New England
Journal Article An Inquiry Into When and Why Women Learned to Write in Colonial New England Get access Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, Co. 80309 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 24, Issue 3, Spring 1991, Pages 579–589, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/24.3.579 Published: 01 March 1991
Tobacco Colony
Journal Article Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. By Gloria L. Main. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xv + 326 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00.) Get access James P. Whittenburg James P. Whittenburg College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Page 646, htt…
The Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640-1773
T has always been something of a mystery how the people of rural J New England made a living on that rocky land. Alice Hanson Jones depicted the region on the eve of the Revolution as America's poorest, while Kenneth Lockridge has argued the stark Malthusian logic of too many people trying to occupy too little space. Robert A. Gross documented the erosion of family life in Concord that followed, equally logically, on the increasing necessity of s…
Personal Wealth in Colonial America
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Black Rice
Book Review| March 01 2004 Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas Judith A. Carney Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001 xiv + 240 pp.,$40.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper) Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (1): 136–138. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-1-136 Cite Icon Cite Share Ico…
Many Things Forgotten
people did not own guns before the middle of the nineteenth century because guns had been too expensive, unreliable, and not all that useful.1 The advent of mass production and aggressive advertizing by domestic arms manufacturers, Bellesiles argues, boosted the levels of ownership, contributed to rising rates of interpersonal violence among white men, and created a national gun culture centered on the possession and display of firearms. Much of …
The Standard of Living in Colonial Massachusetts
Based on findings in Massachusetts probate records, 1650-1753, this paper argues that the average value of consumer goods among farmers and other rural inhabitants in that colony did not decline over the course of the colonial period but fluctuated around an average value little different from that for an equivalent segment of the population at risk in Maryland at the turn of the eighteenth century. Similar findings by Jackson Turner Main for.col…
The Best Poor Man's Country
Personal Wealth in Colonial America
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Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689-1692
Journal Article Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689–1692. By Lois Green Carr and David William Jordan. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1974. xviii + 321 pp. Map, tables, appendix, notes, note on sources, and index. $15.00.) Get access Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main Setauket, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 4, March 1975, Pages 1076–1077, …
Literacy in Colonial New England
Probate Records as a Source for Early American History
HE varieties of human experience are not infinite, and the understanding of man proceeds through the study of the one, the few, and the many. Historians traditionally have concentrated on the first by focusing on the thoughts and actions of prominent individuals moving within a specific social and cultural milieu about which the researcher possesses a more or less clear picture. That picture, alas, is often the result of a series of camera's-eye …
The Dutch "In Dutch" in Old New York
The Evolution of a Tidewater Settlement System
Inequality in Early America
of Massachusetts and Maryland The distribution of wealth in America is highly unequal now and was even more unequal a hundred years ago. If the distribution of slaves in I790 is a trustworthy guide, inequality, in the South at least, was already high in the earliest years of the Republic (see Table I). A careful probing of the census data on wealth-holding for the years I850, 1860, and 1870 persuaded one investigator that the distribution of weal…
Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1660-1775
The Good Shepherd and His Wandering Flock
Wealth of a Nation to Be
Tobacco Colony
Tobacco Colony
Early Maryland in a Wider World
Tobacco Colony
Journal Article Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. By Gloria L. Main. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xv + 326 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00.) Get access James P. Whittenburg James P. Whittenburg College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Page 646, htt…
The Standard of Living in Colonial Massachusetts
Based on findings in Massachusetts probate records, 1650-1753, this paper argues that the average value of consumer goods among farmers and other rural inhabitants in that colony did not decline over the course of the colonial period but fluctuated around an average value little different from that for an equivalent segment of the population at risk in Maryland at the turn of the eighteenth century. Similar findings by Jackson Turner Main for.col…
Tobacco Colony
Leah and Rachel Revisited
Tobacco Colony
Colonial British America
Journal Article Colonial Biitish America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era. Ed. by Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. xi + 508 pp. Tables, notes, and index. Cloth, $28.50; paper, $14.95.) Get access Gloria L. Main Gloria L. Main University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984…
Tobacco Colony
Tobacco Colony
Tobacco Colony
The End of American Independence
Tobacco Roads
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