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  1. Virginia 1619
    slavery and freedom in the making of English America
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    Erschienen: [2019]
    Verlag:  Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia ; The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative... mehr

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    10 A 83634
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2020 A 7880
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    70.3528
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident

     

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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Beteiligt: Musselwhite, Paul (HerausgeberIn); Mancall, Peter C. (HerausgeberIn); Horn, James (HerausgeberIn)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Konferenzschrift
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781469652016; 9781469651798
    Körperschaften/Kongresse: Virginia in 1619: Legacies for Race, Commonwealth, and Empire (2017, Hanover, NH)
    Schlagworte: African Americans; Indians of North America; Slavery; Democracy
    Umfang: 320 Seiten, Illustrationen, 1 Karte
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    "Although this volume centers on the events of a sweltering summer in the Chesapeake Tidewater, it began life in the mountains of northern New England. It grew out of a conference hosted at Dartmouth College in the spring of 2017 ..."--Acknowledgments page

    Includes bibliographical references and index