Colonial Chesapeake Society (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807818003 ISBN 13: 9780807818008

Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 1989

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

"This invaluable collection of eleven essays summarizes the central discoveries and themes of recent scholarship while offering suggestions for future research. . . . A landmark volume."-- Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0807818003
• ISBN 13: 9780807818008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524
• Editor: Carr Lois Green, Morgan Philip D., Russo Jean B.