Volume 28, Number 1 · February 5, 1981
Original Sins
By Lawrence Stone
Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America
by T.H. Breen
Oxford University Press, 270 pp., $17.50
"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
by T.H. Breen, by Stephen Innes
Oxford University Press, 142 pp., $12.95
In English Ways: The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century
by David Grayson Allen
University of North Carolina Press, 336 pp., $27.00
Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society
by Daniel Blake Smith
Cornell University Press, 305 pp., $17.50
In the last thirty years American colonial history has been dominated by two broad concepts. The first is that of the core and the periphery, meaning that before the Revolution the colonies were satellites revolving around the civilization centered on London; and indeed that as the eighteenth century progressed they became more rather than less like the English, both institutionally and culturally. The second idea, which has only recently come to the fore, is that of diversity, from one colony to another.
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