The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century : essays on Anglo-American society
著者
書誌事項
The Chesapeake in the seventeenth century : essays on Anglo-American society
W.W. Norton, c1979
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注記
"Outgrowth of a conference ... held on November 1 and 2, 1974, at College Park and St. Mary's, Maryland."--Pref
Published as a Norton paperback 1979 by arrangement with The University of North Carolina Press
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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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