A very mutinous people : the struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 /
According to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values fled Virginia's plantation society late in the 17th century to create the first successful European colony in the Albemarle, in present-day North Carolina. Tapping into previously unused documents, McIlvenna expl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | North Carolina History & Culture anthology.
NC LIVE module. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | According to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values fled Virginia's plantation society late in the 17th century to create the first successful European colony in the Albemarle, in present-day North Carolina. Tapping into previously unused documents, McIlvenna explains how North Carolina's first planters struggled to impose a plantation society upon the settlers and how those early small farmers, defending a wide franchise and religious toleration, steadfastly resisted. She contends that the story of the Albemarle colony is a microcosm of the greater process by wh. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780807887929 0807887927 9781469605661 146960566X 9780807887912 0807887919 |