{"product_id":"planting-an-empire-jean-b-russo-9781421405551","title":"Planting an Empire: The Early Chesapeake in British North America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlanting an Empire\u003c\/i\u003e explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct colonies in early America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinked 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 followed divergent social and economic paths. Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo review the shared history of these two colonies, examining not only their unsteady origins, the powerful role of tobacco, and the slow development of a settler society but also the economic disparities and political jealousies that divided them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecounting the rich history of the Chesapeake Bay region over a 150-year period, the authors discuss in clear and accessible prose the key developments common to both colonies as well as important regional events, including Maryland's \"plundering time,\" Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, and the opening battles of the French and Indian War. They explain how the internal differences and regional discord of the seventeenth century gave way in the eighteenth century to a more coherent regional culture fostered by a shared commitment to slavery and increasing socio-economic maturity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddressing an undergraduate audience, the Russos study not just wealthy plantation owners and government officials but all the people involved in planting an empire in the Chesapeake region--poor and middling planters, women, Native Americans, enslaved and free blacks, and non-English immigrants. No other book offers such a comprehensive brief history of the Maryland and Virginia colonies and their place within the emerging British Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean B. Russo,J. Elliott Russo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421405555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421405551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2013","brand":"Jean B. Russo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088210079999,"sku":"9781421405551","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a30192d5-ed3a-4834-9202-5331df08f91e.jpg?v=1769103666","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/planting-an-empire-jean-b-russo-9781421405551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}