Planting an Empire The Early Chesapeake in British North America

Name: Planting an Empire The Early Chesapeake in British North America
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ISBN: 9781421405568

ISBN-10: 1421405563

ISBN-13: 9781421405568

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jean B. Russo, J. Elliott Russo

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Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct areas of interaction and settlement during the colonial period.Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in North America before the American Revolution. Yet these "sister" colonies—despite their similar climate and soil, emphasis on tobacco farming, and use of enslaved labor—followed divergent social and economic paths. Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo review the shared history of these two colonies, examining not only their unsteady origins, the role of tobacco, and the slow development of a…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue Leah and Rachel



Great Expectations



Troubled Times



Transformations



Coming Together, Moving Apart



A Society Enslaved


Epilogue Grappling with an Empire


Notes


Essay on Sources


Index