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- catalog abstract "Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this pathbreaking study, James Horn looks across the Atlantic, examining 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. Horn examines the factors that encouraged or forced these settlers to leave England, their initial impressions of their new home, their adaptation to the novel conditions they encountered, and their experience of family life, the local community, work, law and order, and religion. English immigrants did not expect to find a mirror image of England in the Chesapeake. Yet for all that was different in New World society, Virginia and Maryland were emphatically English, not just in name but also in temperament. Immigrants thought of themselves as English, were governed by English laws and institutions, broadly followed English religious practices, and held to the same traditions as English people back home. 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.".
- catalog contributor b6559973.
- catalog contributor b6559974.
- catalog coverage "Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Emigration and immigration History 17th century.".
- catalog coverage "Gloucestershire (England) Emigration and immigration History 17th century.".
- catalog coverage "Kent (England) Emigration and immigration History 17th century.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Contrast and Diversity: The Social Origins of Chesapeake Immigrants -- English Landscapes -- The Formation of Chesapeake Society -- The Great Bay of Chesupioc -- Settling the Land -- Comparative Themes -- The Social Web: Family, Kinship, and Community -- Adams Curse: Working Lives -- House and Home: The Domestic Environment -- Order and Disorder -- Inner Worlds: Religion and Popular Belief -- English Society in the New World.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this pathbreaking study, James Horn looks across the Atlantic, examining 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. Horn examines the factors that encouraged or forced these settlers to leave England, their initial impressions of their new home, their adaptation to the novel conditions they encountered, and their experience of family life, the local community, work, law and order, and religion. English immigrants did not expect to find a mirror image of England in the Chesapeake. Yet for all that was different in New World society, Virginia and Maryland were emphatically English, not just in name but also in temperament. Immigrants thought of themselves as English, were governed by English laws and institutions, broadly followed English religious practices, and held to the same traditions as English people back home. 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.".
- catalog extent "xv, 461 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Adapting to a new world.".
- catalog identifier "0807821373 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Adapting to a new world.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Adapting to a new world.".
- catalog spatial "Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Emigration and immigration History 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)".
- catalog spatial "Gloucestershire (England) Emigration and immigration History 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Kent (England) Emigration and immigration History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "975.5/18 20".
- catalog subject "British Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "F187.C5 H66 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Contrast and Diversity: The Social Origins of Chesapeake Immigrants -- English Landscapes -- The Formation of Chesapeake Society -- The Great Bay of Chesupioc -- Settling the Land -- Comparative Themes -- The Social Web: Family, Kinship, and Community -- Adams Curse: Working Lives -- House and Home: The Domestic Environment -- Order and Disorder -- Inner Worlds: Religion and Popular Belief -- English Society in the New World.".
- catalog title "Adapting to a new world : English society in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / James Horn.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".