The History and Present State of Virginia
A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish
Published on 13. May 2013
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-1-4696-0794-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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.
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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A quality edition. Recommended. All general and academic collections."--ChoiceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
715 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-0794-8 (9781469607948)
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Person
Robert Beverley (d. 1722) is best known as author of The History and Present State of Virginia (1705), the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America.
Susan Scott Parrish is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan, USA and author of American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.
Susan Scott Parrish is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan, USA and author of American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.