Adapting to a New World English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake |
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| Author:
| Horn, James |
| Series title: | Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-4614-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $94.00AUD $64.00 |
Book Description:
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Often compared unfavourably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. This study challenges this view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behaviour on the early Chesapeake.
Often compared unfavourably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. This study challenges this view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behaviour on the early Chesapeake.