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Adapting to a New World - English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (Paperback, New edition)
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Adapting to a New World - English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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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 in
Virginia and Maryland were born and raised in England, a factor of
enormous consequence for social development in the two colonies. By
stressing the vital social and cultural connections between England
and the Chesapeake during this period, Horn places the development
of early America in the context of a vibrant Anglophone
transatlantic world and suggests a fundamental reinterpretation of
New World society. |Based on literary and legal sources, this study
reveals how legal contests involving women, children,
African-Americans, and the poor of the 19th-century South led to a
rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order.
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