Mortality and Family in the Colonial Chesapeake

Bibliographic Data

ID3551905
AuthorsDaniel Blake Smith (corresponding author)
Year1978
Volume8
Issue3
Pages403
Publication date1978-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/202914
PMID11632285
OpenAlexW2059036039
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Mortality and Family in the Colonial Chesapeake Colonial Chesapeake society is currently receiving a vigorous reexamination. After a decade of important demographic studies written about New England communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,1 social historians have begun to explore the largely neglected areas of population growth, life expectancy, and family structure in early Virginia and Maryland. Some of the research is unpublished, but the intensity and quality of recent work on early Chesapeake society suggest that the findings of these social historians will be of major importance to students of colonial America. When completed, this reassessment of the Chesapeake should underscore the differences between the social history of early New England and the colonial South.2

Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Genealogy · Life expectancy · Population · Sociology · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History

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