Colonial Chesapeake Society
Colonial Chesapeake Society

Author: Lois Green Carr

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2015-05-18

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1469600129

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Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century. Younger historians and senior scholars here focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people: why they came to the Chesapeake; how they adapted to their new world; who prospered and why; how property was accumulated and by whom. At the same time, the essays encompass broader issues of early American history, including the transatlantic dimension of colonization, the establishment of communities, both religious and secular, the significance of regionalism, the causes and effects of social and economic diversification, and the participation of Indians and blacks in the formation of societies. Colonial Chesapeake Society consolidates current advances in social history and provokes new questions.

Mistress of Riversdale
Mistress of Riversdale

Author: Rosalie Stier Calvert

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780801843990

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A richer reflection of life in early 19th-century Maryland and the Washington environs cannot be found. -- Washington Post Book World

Civil Wars
Civil Wars

Author: George C. Rable

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1991-04

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780252062124

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Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable uncovers the details of how women fit into the South's complex social order and how Southern social assumptions shaped their attitudes toward themselves, their families, and society as a whole. He reveals a bafflingly intricate social order and the ways the South's surprisingly diverse women shaped their own lives and minds despite strict boundaries. Paying particular attention to women during the Civil War, Roble illuminates their thoughts on the conflict and the threats and challenges they faced and looks at their place in both the economy and politics of the Confederacy. He also ranges back to the antebellum era and forward to postwar South, when women quickly acquiesced to the old patriarchal system but nonetheless lived lives changed forever by the war.