The History and Present State of Virginia: A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press) - Hardcover

Beverley, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469607948 ISBN 13: 9781469607948

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013

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While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative.

Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Scott Parrish is Professor of English Language and Literature and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan, and author of American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.

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While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. As a native-born American-- most famously claiming "I am an Indian"-- he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1469607948
• ISBN 13: 9781469607948
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 342
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