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The American Colonies: Another British Kingdom - New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century. By Virginia DeJohn Anderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 232. $34.50. - “To Make America”: European Emigration in the Early Modern Period. Edited by Ida Altman and James Horn. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 263. $34.95. - Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. By Robert M. Bliss. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 300. $79.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Karen Ordahl Kupperman*
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West Georgia College
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 277 - 281
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2 On the concept of “competency,” see Vickers, Daniel, “Competency and Competition: Economic Culture in Early America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 47 (1990): 3–29CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Horn, James, “Adapting to a New World: A Comparative Study of Local Society in England and Maryland, 1650–1700,” in Colonial Chesapeake Society, ed. Carr, Lois Green, Morgan, Philip D., and Russo, Jean B. (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1988), pp. 133–75, quote on p. 133Google Scholar.

4 Carr, Lois, Walsh, Lorena, and Menard, Russell, Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1991)Google Scholar. Perry, James R. also argues for a strong sense of social cohesion in The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615–1655 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1990)Google Scholar.

5 Cressy, David, Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 1987)Google Scholar.