Przestrzenie codzienności. Plantacje i rezydencje wielkich plantatorów osiemnastowiecznej Wirginii

Abstract

The impressive ways of everyday life, vast plantations, and beautiful English-style houses, played an important role in the process of shaping and strengthening of the Virginia elite in the eighteenth century. The article characterises the transformation of plantations and residences of the wealthiest Virginians, pointing at the relevance of changes in agriculture to their life style, and the significance of so called consumer revolution around the middle of the century, and some fresh architectural designs from England and the new capital of Virginia.