Description: Planting an Empire Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Early Chesapeake in British North America Author(s): Jean B. Russo, J. Elliott Russo Format: Paperback Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 9781421405568, 978-1421405568 Synopsis "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 development of a settler society but also the economic disparities and political jealousies that divided them. Recounting the rich history of the Chesapeake Bay region over a 150-year period, the authors discuss in clear and accessible prose the key developments common to both colonies as well as important regional events, including Maryland's "plundering time", Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, and the opening battles of the French and Indian War. They explain how the internal differences and regional discord of the seventeenth century gave way in the eighteenth century to a more coherent regional culture fostered by a shared commitment to slavery and increasing socio-economic maturity. Addressing an undergraduate audience, the Russos study not just wealthy plantation owners and government officials but all the people involved in planting an empire in the Chesapeake region-poor and middling planters, women, Native Americans, enslaved and free blacks, and non-English immigrants. No other book offers such a comprehensive brief history of the Maryland and Virginia colonies and their place within the emerging British Empire.
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Book Title: Planting an Empire
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Planting an Empire: the Early Chesapeake in British North America
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: History
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 295 g
Type: Textbook
Author: J. Elliott Russo, Jean B. Russo
Series: Regional Perspectives on Early America
Item Width: 140 mm
Format: Paperback
