The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century
The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Warren M. Billings

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780807812372

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This book is a convenient collection of seventeenth-century Virginia documentary source material. Using the observations, descriptions, and legal documents of the colonists themselves, this book makes it possible to reconstruct the process by which order was established in the wilderness during Virginia's first century.

Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women
Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women

Author: Melinda S. Zook

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1317168755

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Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a group of leading voices in their respective fields. Each essay confronts some received wisdom, ’truth’ or orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific and intellectual, and political and legal traditions, to demonstrate how women from a range of social classes could challenge the conventional thinking of their time as well as the ways in which they have been traditionally portrayed by scholars. Subjects include women's relationship to guns and gunpowder, the law and legal discourse, religion, public finances, and the new science in early modern Europe, as well as women and indentured servitude in the New World. A testament to the pioneering work of Hilda L. Smith, this collection makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in women’s studies, political science, history, religion and literature.

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Author: North Carolina State Library

Publisher:

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake
Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake

Author: Debra Meyers

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-07-16

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0739189751

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Tise cutting-edge collection of essays in this volume represent the vast array of experiences in the Chesapeake region, encompassing the racial, class, ethnic, and gender diversity that characterized life in early Maryland and Virginia. Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake makes a significant contribution to the growing interest in the Chesapeake as an accurate indication of the English customs, rituals, and beliefs men and women brought to the New World. Ultimately, this study suggests that the multicultural Chesapeake created significant cultural, intellectual, and social norms that have shaped the diverse world of the American people.

The Jamestown Brides
The Jamestown Brides

Author: Jennifer Potter

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0190942630

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Jennifer Potter explores the lives of the fifty-six women who volunteered to leave their lives in England and travel to the Jamestown colony in 1621.

Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718
Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718

Author: John Wareing

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0198788908

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The first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, who paid for their transportation and keep, and continued to work unpaid for years on their arrival. Often these people were deceived and coerced, despite half-hearted government efforts to curtail the activities of what was, after all, a useful crime for the English state.