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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas Bradburn; John C Coombs |
| ISBN: | 9780813931494 0813931495 |
| OCLC Number: | 704557340 |
| Description: | ix, 350 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Lorena S. Walsh -- The eschatological origins of the English empire / Douglas Bradburn -- Mutual appraisals : the shifting paradigms of the English, Spanish, and Powhatahs in Tsenacomoco, 1560-1622 / Camilla Townsend -- The rise and fall of the Virginia-Dutch connection in the seventeenth century / Victor Enthoven and Wim Klooster -- "To seeke for justice" : gender, servitude, and household governance in the early modern Chesapeake / Terri L. Snyder -- Deference, defiance, and the language of office in seventeenth-century Virginia / Alexander B. Haskell -- Middle plantation's changing landscape : persistence, continuity, and the building of community / Philip Levy -- "Scatter'd upon the English seats" : Indian identity and land occupancy in the Rappahannock River Valley / Edward DuBois Ragan -- Beyond the "origins debate" : rethinking the rise of Virginia slavery / John C. Coombs -- Transatlantic politics and the Africanization of Virginia's labor force, 1688-1712 / William A. Pettigrew -- Conclusion : the future of Chesapeake studies / Philip D. Morgan. |
| Series Title: | Early American histories. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Douglas Bradburn and John C. Coombs. |
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Each essay in this book rests securely on solid evidentiary foundations, and all are finely drawn. The overall result is a collection of uniformly high quality from first to last that yields generous rewards for the investment of a reader's time. In short, this book is a substantial addition to the literature on early Virginia, and it is likely to become a road map for future research and reflection.--Warren M. Billings, University of New Orleans "author of Sir William Berkley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia " Early Modern Virginia delivers what it promises by providing us a set of engaging essays that brings new research methods and sources, new questions, and new interpretations to the study of colonial Virginia. But more importantly, its essays address questions of religion, of political and economic thought, and of the cultural relevance of place far beyond Virginia's borders. It will force readers to rethink the shifting early modern world.--April Lee Hatfield, Texas A&M University "Early Modern Virginia" delivers what it promises by providing us a set of engaging essays that brings new research methods and sources, new questions, and new interpretations to the study of colonial Virginia. But more importantly, its essays address questions of religion, of political and economic thought, and of the cultural relevance of place far beyond Virginia's borders. It will force readers to rethink the shifting early modern world.--April Lee Hatfield, Texas A&M University Each essay in this book rests securely on solid evidentiary foundations, and all are finely drawn. The overall result is a collection of uniformly high quality from first to last that yields generous rewards for the investment of a reader's time. In short, this book is a substantial addition to the literature on early Virginia, and it is likely to become a road map for future research and reflection.--Warren M. Billings, University of New Orleans "author of "Sir William Berkley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia " " "Early Modern Virginia"delivers what it promises by providing us a set of engaging essays that brings newresearch methods and sources, new questions, and new interpretations to the study ofcolonial Virginia. But more importantly, its essays address questions of religion, of political and economic thought, and of the cultural relevance of place far beyondVirginia's borders. It will force readers to rethink the shifting early modernworld.--April Lee Hatfield, Texas A&M University Read more...
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