Adapting to a New World English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

Name: Adapting to a New World English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
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ISBN: 9780807846148

ISBN-10: 0807846147

ISBN-13: 9780807846148

Edition: 1996

Authors: James Horn

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Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behavior on the social and cultural evolution of the early Chesapeake. Using detailed local and regional studies to compare everyday life in English provincial society and the emergent societies of the Chesapeake Bay, Horn provides a richly textured picture of the immigrants' Old World backgrounds and their adjustment to life in America. Until the end of the seventeenth century, most settlers…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/30/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

James Hornis Vice President of Research and Historical Interpretation and O’Neill Director of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and lecturer at the College of William & Mary. He is author most recently ofA Land as God Made It. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.



Preface


Illustrations and Tables


Introduction



The English Context of Emigration



Contrast and Diversity: The Social Origins of Chesapeake Immigrants



English Landscapes



The Formation of Chesapeake Society



The Great Bay of Chesupioc



Settling the Land



Comparative Themes



The Social Web: Family, Kinship, and Community



Adam's Curse: Working Lives



House and Home: The Domestic Environment



Order and Disorder



Inner Worlds: Religion and Popular Belief



English Society in the New World


Index