Book ID: CBB001421809

Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America (2012)

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Russo, Jean Burrell (Author)
Russo, J. Elliott (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: x + 238 pp.; ill.; notes; index
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Marquese, Rafael de Bivar
Williams, J'Nese
Jeng, Alieu
Swindell, Ken
Koot, Christian J.
Hoyle, R. W.
Concepts
Agriculture
Farmers
Slavery and slaves
Colonialism
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Imperialism
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Virginia (U.S.)
United States
Maryland (U.S.)
England
Atlantic world
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