Colonial Chesapeake Society

by Philip D. Morgan

Book Overview

Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century.

Younger historians and senior scholars here focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people: why they came to the Chesapeake; how they adapted to their new world; who prospered and why; how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807843431
• ISBN13: 9780807843437
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"