The rediscovery of the early Chesapeake, emigration, and marriage and family are three of the essay topics. Other subjects include environment, disease, and mortality; immigration and opportunity; parental death in a particular county; settlement patterns; political stability and the emergence of a native elite; and English-born and Creole elites in turn-of-the-century Virginia.
While the essays individually exemplify a number of distinct themes and methodological approaches to the subject, as a whole they provide a remarkable comprehensive overview of the progression in the seventeenth century from a predominantly emigrant society, subsisting under conditions of great instability and high mortality, to a largely native-born population that had achieved a notable degree of political and social stability.
- ISBN10 0393009564
- ISBN13 9780393009569
- Publish Date 17 January 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English