Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Meyers, Debra; Perreault, Melanie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tise cutting-edge collection of essays in this volume represent the vast array of experiences in the Chesapeake region, encompassing the racial, class, ethnic, and gender diversity that characterized life in early Maryland and Virginia. Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake makes a significant contribution to the growing interest in the Chesapeake as an accurate indication of the English customs, rituals, and beliefs men and women brought to the New World. Ultimately, this study suggests that the multicultural Chesapeake created significant cultural, intellectual, and social norms that have shaped the diverse world of the American people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216312963
• Artikelnr.: 74844915

Autorenporträt

Edited by Debra Meyers and Melanie Perreault

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction Section One: Belief Systems Introduction
Chapter One: Adam Jortner, Without Demons: Witchcraft, Gender, and Law in
the Colonial Chesapeake Chapter Two: Monica Witkowski, "A Witch amongst All
Them": Chesapeake Witchcraft as a Case Study for Colonial North American
Witchcraft Beliefs Chapter Three: Debra Meyers, "The people are not att all
fond of the Litturgy or cerimonyes": Theology in the Early Chesapeake
Section Two: Legal Systems Introduction Chapter Four: Jeffrey Sawyer,
English Law and the "Rights of Persons" in Early Maryland Chapter Five:
Allison Madar, "An Innate Love of Cruelty": Master Violence Against Female
Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia Chapter Six: Karen Lubieniecki,
Apart Before Death: Separated Women in Colonial Maryland Chapter Seven:
Kristalyn Shefveland, Sic jurat transcendere montes ("Thus he swears to
cross the mountains"): Alexander Spotswood, Colonial and Native diplomacy
in the 1722 Albany Peace Section Three: Labor Systems Introduction Chapter
Eight: Teresa Foster, "A shameful and unblessed thing" Convict Bondwomen in
eighteenth-century Maryland Chapter Nine: Vaughn Scribner, 'A Genteel and
Sensible Servant': The Commodification of African Slaves in Tidewater
Virginia, 1700-1774 Chapter Ten: Jennie Jeppesen, "To serve longer
according to law": The chattel-like status of convict servants in Virginia