Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America (Regional Perspectives on Early America)
A valuable and wide-ranging summary of social, economic, and political developments in the Chesapeake from the beginning of European settlement to the Revolution.(Lorena S. Walsh, author ofMotives ofHonor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763)A lucidly written, up-to-date synthesis of the histories of Colonial Virginia and Maryland that will be a valuable asset to students new to the subject, or to scholars in need of a brief refresher.(Choice)An elegant and admirably concise overview of the history of the Chesapeake Bay region from the onset of English settlement to the end of the colonial period.(Virigina DeJohn AndersonJournal of American History)A clear and accessible introduction to the history of the colonial Chesapeake.(Travis GlassonJournal of Southern History)