The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American SocietyOne of the strongest currents in early American studies at the present time is a major revival of interest in the history of seventeenth-century Virginia and Maryland. This volume of essays illustrates the richness and variety of the work being done, especially by a group of young social historians. Through its important sampling of new reseach, it succeds in bringing the Chesapeake into focus as a region. The rediscovery of the early Chesapeake, emigration, and marriage and family are three of the essay topics. Other subjects include environment, disease, and mortality; immigration and opportunity; parental death in a particular county; settlement patterns; political stability and the emergence of a native elite; and English-born and Creole elites in turn-of-the-century Virginia. While the essays individually exemplify a number of distinct themes and methodological approaches to the subject, as a whole they provide a remarkable comprehensive overview of the progression in the seventeenth century from a predominantly emigrant society, subsisting under conditions of great instability and high mortality, to a largely native-born population that had achieved a notable degree of political and social stability. |
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| Title | The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society Original essays series / Institute of Early American History and Culture |
| Editors | Thad W. Tate, David Leon Ammerman |
| Contributor | Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0393009564, 9780393009569 |
| Length | 310 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / State & Local / General History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) |
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