The great plantation : a profile of Berkeley Hundred and plantation Virginia from Jamestown to Appomattox / by Clifford Dowdey
1957, First Edition. Charles City, Va. : Berkeley Plantation. First signed, very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #382217
Physical description : 327 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes : Includes index. Contents : The Age of the Frontier: The Desperate Men -- The Plantation is Born -- The Flight of the Cavaliers -- The Fortune Builder -- The Age of the Aristocrat: Portrait of a Planter-As a Man of Business -- Portrait of a Planter-As a Grandee -- Portrait of a Planter-As a Man of Destiny -- The Golden Age: Reluctant Rebels -- The "Signer" -- The Hour of Heroes -- The Setting Sun -- The Afterglow: The Twilight of the Gods -- A Post Script. Subjects : Barclay family. Plantation life Virginia. Berkeley Plantation (Va.)
Virginia History.
Price: €35.00