The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1607--1689 : A History of the South

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craven, Wesley Frank, 1905-1981.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

History of the South ; Volume 1.

A History of the South ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Colonies--History--17th century.

Great Britain.

Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Southern States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 469 p., [16] p. of plates ) ill., facsims., maps ;

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Louisiana State University Press : The Littlefield Fund for Southern history of the University of Texas, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is Volume I of A HISTORY OF THE SOUTH, a ten-volume series designed to present a balanced history of all the complex aspects of the South's culture from 1607 to the present. Like its companion volumes, The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century was written by an outstanding student of Southern history. In the America of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, just what was Southern? The first colonists looked upon themselves as British, and only gradually did those attitudes and traditions develop which were distinctively American. To determine what was Southern in the early colonies, Professor Craven has searched for those features of early American society which distinguished the South in later years and those features of early American history which help the Southerner to understand himself. The Chesapeake colonies-Virginia and Maryland-formed the first Southern community. These colonies grew out of the same interest which directed European imperialism toward Africa and the West Indies-notably the production of sugar, silk, wine, and tobacco. Craven studies the social, economic, and political development of the Southern colonies as the product of continuing European rivalries that resulted in the colonization of Carolina and Florida. Major emphasis, however, is placed upon British expansion, since Anglo-Saxon influence was dominant in the formation of the South as a region. Craven sees as crucial the middle period of the seventeenth century. Out of the political and social unrest which characterized these years emerged the points of view which gave shape to the American and the Southern tradition.

Notes:

"Critical essay on authorities": p. 417-433.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807164921

0807164925

9780807164914

0807164917

9780807100110

0807100110

OCLC:

966819274

Publisher Number:

2027/heb01347 hdl