Adapting To A New World: English Society In The Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake; Author: Horn, James J.; Paperback

Author: Horn, James J.
Paperback; 23 Illustrations, 34 Tables, Index
480 pages
Published: September 1996
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807846147

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.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.