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Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth : The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake /
The English settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some sought wealth from the land, while others saw it as a place of trade, a political experiment, or a potential spiritual sanctuary. But like other European colonizers in the Americas, the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | American Beginnings, 1500-1900
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: "Our Folly and Ruining Singularity"
- 1. Garrison Towns, Corporate Boroughs, and the Search for Order under the Virginia Company
- 2. From Corporate Communities to County Courts in the Early Stuart Empire
- 3. The Political Geography of Empire in the English Revolution
- 4. Planters, the State, and the Restoration City
- 5. Towns, Improvement, and the Contest for Authority in the 1680s
- 6. The Imperial City and the Solidifying of the Plantation System
- 7. Urban Growth and Country Thought in the Planters' Golden Age
- Epilogue: "This little Common wealth"
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index