Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century. Younger historians and senior scholars here focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people: why they came to the Chesapeake; how they adapted to their new world; who prospered and why; how property was accumulated and by whom. At the same time, the essays encompass broader issues of early American history, including the transatlantic dimension of colonization, the establishment of communities, both religious and secular, the significance of regionalism, the causes and effects of social and economic diversification, and the participation of Indians and blacks in the formation of societies. Colonial Chesapeake Society consolidates current advances in social history and provokes new questions.
| ISBN: | 9780807843437 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 1991 |
| Author: | Va Institute of Early American History and Culture Williamsburg |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 524 pages |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas |
Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century. Younger historians and senior scholars here focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people: why they came to the Chesapeake; how they adapted to their new world; who prospered and why; how property was accumulated and by whom. At the same time, the essays encompass broader issues of early American history, including the transatlantic dimension of colonization, the establishment of communities, both religious and secular, the significance of regionalism, the causes and effects of social and economic diversification, and the participation of Indians and blacks in the formation of societies. Colonial Chesapeake Society consolidates current advances in social history and provokes new questions.
Colonial Chesapeake Society features in the following genres: History of the Americas
Colonial Chesapeake Society is available in Paperback
Colonial Chesapeake Society was written by Va Institute of Early American History and Culture Williamsburg and published by The University of North Carolina Press
Colonial Chesapeake Society has 524 pages
£45.90