Author: Sparacio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781680342727
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: James D. Rice
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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How environmental forces, and human responses to them, profoundly shaped both Native American and colonial life along the Potomac River. James D. Rice’s fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man’s land influenced nearby Native American and, later, colonial settlements. Did it function as a commons, as a place where all were free to hunt and fish? Or was it perceived as a strange and hostile wilderness? Rice discovers environmental factors at the center of the story. Making use of extensive archaeological and anthropological research, as well as the vast scholarship on farming practices in the colonial period, he traces the region’s history from its earliest known habitation. With exceptionally vivid prose, Rice makes clear the implications of unbridled economic development for the forests, streams, and wetlands of the Potomac River basin. With what effects, Rice asks, did humankind exploit and then alter the landscape and the quality of the river’s waters? Equal parts environmental, Native American, and colonial history, Nature and History in the Potomac Country is a useful and innovative study of the Potomac River, its valley, and its people.

Author: Warren M. Billings
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807812372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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This book is a convenient collection of seventeenth-century Virginia documentary source material. Using the observations, descriptions, and legal documents of the colonists themselves, this book makes it possible to reconstruct the process by which order was established in the wilderness during Virginia's first century.

Author: Lonnie H. Lee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1978714866
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia is the history of a Huguenot emigrant community established in eight counties along the Rappahannock River of Virginia in 1687, with the arrival of an Anglican-ordained Huguenot minister from Cozes, France named John Bertrand. This Huguenot community, effectively hidden to researchers for more than 300 years, comes to life through the examination of county court records cross-referenced with French Protestant records in England and France. The 261 households and fifty-three indentured servants documented in this study, including a significant group from Bertrand’s hometown of Cozes, comprise a large Huguenot migration to English America and the only one to fully embrace Anglicanism from its inception. In July 1687 a French exile named Durand de Dauphiné published a tract at The Hague outlining the pattern and geography of this migration. The tract included a short list of inducements Virginia officials were offering to attract Huguenot settlers to Rappahannock County. These included access to French preaching by a Huguenot minister who would also serve an established Anglican parish, and the availability of inexpensive land. John Bertrand was the first of five French exile ministers performing this dual track ministry in the Rappahannock region between 1687 and 1767.

Author: Philip Alexander Bruce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Philip Alexander Bruce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: David Alan Williams
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Helen C. Rountree
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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In this history, Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with English colonists, in 1607, to their present-day way of life and relationship to the state of Virginia and the federal government. Roundtree’s examination of those four hundred years misses not a beat in the pulse of Powhatan life. Combining meticulous scholarship and sensitivity, the author explores the diversity always found among Powhatan people, and those people’s relationships with the English, the government of the fledgling United States, the Union and the Confederacy, the U.S. Census Bureau, white supremacists, the U.S. Selective Service, and the civil rights movement.

Author: American Historical Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families of royal descent
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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Author:
Publisher: Douglas Richardson
ISBN: 1461045207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2635

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