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Adapting to a New World English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
by Horn, James J.
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- Comments: Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small tear to jacket. Scattered underlining and markings, some in ink. <br> "Horn forces us again and again to see major topics in Chesapeake history: the organization of families, political stability and disorder, the nature of work, material culture, religious organization and beliefs; in a new light. The consequence is a major contribution to the social history of Maryland and Virginia that has important implications for our understandings of
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- ISBN-13: 9780807821374
- ISBN: 0807821373
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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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.Horn, James J. is the author of 'Adapting to a New World English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake' with ISBN 9780807821374 and ISBN 0807821373.
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