A01=James Horn
American studies
Author_James Horn
Category=JBCC
Category=NHK
Category=NHTB
Chesapeake
colonial history
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immigrants
Maryland
New World
Virginia
Product details
- ISBN 9780807846148
- Weight: 694g
- Dimensions: 160 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 1996
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
James Horn is director of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library in Colonial Williamsburg.
