Adapting to a New World
English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
By James Horn
480 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 23 halftones, 34 tables, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4614-8
Published: September 1996 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-3831-0
Published: December 2012 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6551-9
Published: December 2012
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Awards & distinctions
1995 Maryland Historical Society Book Prize
About the Author
James Horn is director of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library in Colonial Williamsburg.
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“James Horn’s excellent history of English society in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake breathes new life into a historiography that has become relatively stagnant.”--Journal of Southern History
"A work of exceptional breadth, extensive research and reading, and skillful analysis."--William and Mary Quarterly
"A splendid volume."--Journal of American History
"Horn has written an important book: a synthesis of a generation's study of the 17th-century Chesapeake world fused with his own analytic contributions."--London Review of Books
"In a deeply researched, detailed, and nuanced portrait of the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century, Adapting to a New World both modifies and contextualizes our understandings of the particulars of social life in those colonies and challenges the picture of a disrupted society. The book both adds new information to our knowledge of Chesapeake society, much of it known already by those familiar with Horn's numerous articles, and incorporates much of the vast research uncovered by the current generation of scholars."--Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
"This is an important book, one of the few that examines the transfer of culture from Europe to America in a comparative way. The research is both wide and deep; the book is well-edited and beautifully produced."--Virginia Quarterly Review