Gloria L. Main
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- Masters Computer Science Stanford University
- Bachelors Computer Science University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gloria Lund Main is an American economic historian who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Colorado Boulder. She authored two books about the Thirteen Colonies. Life Gloria Jean Lund was born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lund of Mount Hermon, California. She graduated from Analy High School. Lund completed her bachelor's degree at San Jose State College . She was an economics graduate student at University of California, Berkeley where she was the only female graduate student. In 1956, Lund paused her studies to marry her former undergraduate professor, Jackson Turner Main, a grandson of historian Frederick Jackson Turner. After their three children were school aged, she earned a M.A. from Stony Brook University.
Gloria L. Main's Published Works
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- Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1660-1775: A Handbook (1978) (162)
- Literacy in Colonial New England: An Enquiry into the Social Context of Literacy in the Early Modern West. (1975) (91)
- Probate Records as a Source for Early American History (1975) (52)
- Tobacco Roads@@@A Place in Time: Middlesex County, Virginia, 1650-1750. (1984) (51)
- Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (2004) (50)
- Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 (1984) (47)
- Inequality in Early America: The Evidence from Probate Records of Massachusetts and Maryland (1977) (40)
- Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640–1774 (1988) (32)
- Gender, work, and wages in colonial New England (1994) (26)
- Fast disappearance of the water-soluble phenolic fraction in eucalypt leaf litter during laboratory and field experiments (2003) (25)
- The Correction of Biases in Colonial American Probate Records (1974) (22)
- Naming children in early New England (1996) (22)
- Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England (2001) (21)
- An Inquiry Into When and Why Women Learned to Write in Colonial New England (1991) (21)
- The Good Shepherd and His Wandering Flock@@@Jonathan Edwards, Pastor: Religion and Society in Eighteenth-Century Northampton. (1981) (20)
- Colonial British America : essays in the new history of the early modern era (1985) (15)
- Rocking the Cradle: Downsizing the New England Family (2006) (15)
- The Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640-1773 (1988) (12)
- Personal Wealth in Colonial America: Explorations in the Use of Probate Records from Maryland and Massachusetts, 1650 to 1720 (1974) (12)
- Fermentations : Problems, solutions and prevention (1996) (10)
- The Standard of Living in Colonial Massachusetts (1983) (9)
- Many Things Forgotten: The Use of Probate Records in "Arming America" (2002) (9)
- Peltries or Plantations: The Economic Policies of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland, 1623-1639. (1971) (8)
- The Red Queen in New England (1999) (5)
- Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. By William Cronon. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. Pp. 241. $15.95 cloth, $6.95 paper (1984) (5)
- Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England (review) (2001) (5)
- Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800 . By Peter C. Mancall. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 253. $29.95. (1992) (5)
- Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. By April Lee Hatfield. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 312. $39.95. (2005) (5)
- Women on the Edge: Life at Street Level in the Early Republic (2012) (5)
- The Fathers of the Towns: Leadership and Community Structure in Eighteenth-Century New England. By Edward M. Cook Jr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1976. Pp. xxii, 273 (1977) (2)
- Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia. By Karin Wulf. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press. Pp. xvii, 217. $39.95. (2000) (2)
- An instrument for counting the larvae of the prawn, Palaemon serratus and the brine shrimp, Artemia salina. (1969) (2)
- Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England (2006) (2)
- From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1660–1776 . By Charles G. Steffen. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993. Pp. xi, 209. $35.00. (1994) (2)
- Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. By Jack P. Greene. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 284. $32.50 (1989) (2)
- American Colonial Wealth: Documents and Methods. Vols. I, II, and III. By Alice Hanson Jones. New York, Arno Press, 1977. Pp. 2252. $75.00 (1978) (1)
- American Colonial Economic History: A Review Essay (1986) (1)
- Consumers Anonymous@@@The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America. (1992) (1)
- The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter (review) (2002) (1)
- Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, & Writing in the Making of Early America (review) (2007) (1)
- Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. 3 volumes. (1995) (1)
- Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism. By Amanda Porterfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. x plus 207 pp. $29.95) (1993) (0)
- Peoples of a Spacious Land (2004) (0)
- Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence. By Jordan Goodman. (New York: Routledge, 1993. xii, 280 pp. $59-95, ISBN 0-415-04963-6.) (1995) (0)
- Leah and Rachel Revisited: Everyday Life in the Colonial Chesapeake@@@Tobaco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1719. (1984) (0)
- Chapter Seven. STANDARDS, STYLES, AND PRIORITIES (1983) (0)
- Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution . By Barry Levy . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2009 . Pp. vi, 354. $45.00 .) (2010) (0)
- Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664–1775. By Sung Bok Kim. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. Pp. xxii, 456. $19.00 (1978) (0)
- Appendix B. MARYLAND CURRENCY AND PRICE FLUCTUATIONS (1983) (0)
- Appendix D. GLOSSARY OF ROOM NAMES IN MARYLAND INVENTORIES, 1660-1719 (1983) (0)
- Appendix A. DEMOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON WEALTH IN EARLY MARYLAND (1983) (0)
- Family strategy' and the changing uses of child labour in New England, 1650-1840 (2009) (0)
- Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England. By Anne S. Lombard. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xii, 244 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-01058-2.) (2004) (0)
- Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community. By Angelique Janssens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 317. $64.95 (1995) (0)
- A History of Household Government in America. By Carole Shammas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 232. $55, cloth; $19.50, paper (2003) (0)
- Chapter Five. THE POORER PLANTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES (1983) (0)
- Appendix C. PROBATE RECORDS AS A SOURCE FOR HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION (1983) (0)
- Allan Kulikoff. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. 1986. Pp. xviii, 449. $30.00 (1987) (0)
- Riches, Class, and Power Before the Civil War. By Edward Pessen. Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath, 1973. Pp. 378. $7.95 (1974) (0)
- Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. By Joseph A. Conforti. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 236. $19.95.) (2007) (0)
- Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670–1780. By Phyllis Whitman Hunter. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. xiv, 224 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8014-3855-1.) (2002) (0)
- Chapter One. TOBACCO COLONY (1983) (0)
- Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636–1690 . By Carl Bridenbaugh. Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1974. Pp. xvii, 157. $8.00. (1976) (0)
- A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. By Ronald J. Zboray (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xxii plus 326pp. $45.00) (1994) (0)
- The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History. By Richard Lyman Bushman. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. 386. $40.00.) (2019) (0)
- Chapter Three. SERVANTS AND SLAVES, SLAVES AND SERVANTS (1983) (0)
- M. Michelle Jarrett Morris. Under Household Government: Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts. Mark E. Kann. Taming Passion for the Public Good: Policing Sex in the Early Republic (2014) (0)
- Chapter Six. THE MIDDLING AND AFFLUENT PLANTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES (1983) (0)
- Chapter Two. ADAPTATION UNDER FIRE (1983) (0)
- The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career (2006) (0)
- United States and Canada (2000) (0)
- Allan Kulikoff. The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1992. Pp. xiv, 341. Cloth $49.50, paper $17.50 (1994) (0)
- Chapter Four. HOUSING IN EARLY MARYLAND (1983) (0)
- Farmers $16.95, paper (1995) (0)
- Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History, John Komlos (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989) (1992) (0)
- Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, & Writing in the Making of Early America. By Jennifer J. Baker (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) 218 pp. $50.00 (2007) (0)
- The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America . By Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Pp. 253. $39.95. (2009) (0)
- Nettels's Roots and their Progressive Decay@@@Roots of American Civilization (1938) (1987) (0)
- T. A. MILFORD. The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career. (Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism.) Hanover, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 306. Cloth $65.00, paper $26.00 (2006) (0)
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