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Article: Primal forces: Three interlocking themes in the recent literature on eighteenth-century Virginia
- Article from:
- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Virginia Historical Society Winter 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WHEN the revival of interest in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake began in the late 1960s, the history of the eighteenth century there slipped into something approaching second-class status. Most of the excitement for the next decade came from the innovative, careful, and often highly quantitative examination of the slow upward trudge by European immigrants out of environmental, demographic, economic, and political chaos of the first fifty years after Jamestown toward stability by the time of the Glorious Revolution. In the next chapter, the resultant native-born, reasonably healthy, gender-balanced Anglo-Virginian society would simply telescope the intertwined processes already begun of ...