Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642A social, economic, and cultural history of the late Elizabethan and early Stuart period, as well as a fundamental work on America's origins. |
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... colonies ( on early housing in New England ) in its 870 pages ; yet emigration was certainly a con- comitant of rural dislocation . The comments of the authors men- tioned above concerning the insufficiency of objective sources and the ...
... colonies ( on early housing in New England ) in its 870 pages ; yet emigration was certainly a con- comitant of rural dislocation . The comments of the authors men- tioned above concerning the insufficiency of objective sources and the ...
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... colonies than in the Chesapeake settlements . Thomas Verney wrote to his father from Barbados that the law was " indifferent good , " but it would be better " were it not for some justices that doth make laws one court , and break them ...
... colonies than in the Chesapeake settlements . Thomas Verney wrote to his father from Barbados that the law was " indifferent good , " but it would be better " were it not for some justices that doth make laws one court , and break them ...
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... Colonies ought to be Emunctories or sinckes of States ; to drayne away their filth . . . . This fun- damentall errour hath beene the occasion of the miscarriage of most of our Colonies , and the chargeable destruction of many of our ...
... Colonies ought to be Emunctories or sinckes of States ; to drayne away their filth . . . . This fun- damentall errour hath beene the occasion of the miscarriage of most of our Colonies , and the chargeable destruction of many of our ...
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Westward the Land Was Bright | 3 |
The People of England | 13 |
Country People | 46 |
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