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Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America
Jean B. Russo
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Description for Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America
Paperback. No other book offers such a comprehensive brief history of the Maryland and Virginia colonies and their place within the emerging British Empire. Series: Regional Perspectives on Early America. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16, 13 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 306.
"Planting an Empire" explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct colonies in early America. Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in British North America before the American Revolution. Yet these "sister" colonies-alike in climate and soil, emphasis on tobacco farming, and use of enslaved labor-eventually followed divergent social and economic paths. Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo review the shared history of these two colonies, examining not only their unsteady origins, the powerful role of tobacco, and the slow ... Read more
"Planting an Empire" explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct colonies in early America. Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in British North America before the American Revolution. Yet these "sister" colonies-alike in climate and soil, emphasis on tobacco farming, and use of enslaved labor-eventually followed divergent social and economic paths. Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo review the shared history of these two colonies, examining not only their unsteady origins, the powerful role of tobacco, and the slow ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Regional Perspectives on Early America
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405568
SKU
V9781421405568
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About Jean B. Russo
Jean B. Russo is associate general editor of Archives of Maryland Online and coeditor of The Diary of William Faris: The Daily Life of an Annapolis Silversmith and Colonial Chesapeake Society. J. Elliott Russo is a contributing editor to the Maryland State Archives and author of numerous articles, book chapters, and papers on colonial Maryland and Virginia. ... Read more
Reviews for Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America
A lucidly written, up-to-date synthesis of the histories of Colonial Virginia and Maryland that will be a valuable asset to students new to the subject, or to scholars in need of a brief refresher. Choice An elegant and admirably concise overview of the history of the Chesapeake Bay region from the onset of English settlement to the end of the ... Read more