Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America

by Jean B. Russo

Book Overview

Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct colonies in early America.

Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in British North America before the American Revolution. Yet these "sister" colonies--alike in climate and soil, emphasis on tobacco farming, and use of enslaved labor--eventually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405555
• ISBN13: 9781421405551
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary