Seasons of misery : catastrophe and colonial settlement in early America / Kathleen Donegan.

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Asserts the importance of catastrophes, disasters, and abandonments in the formation of identity of English settlers at Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, and Barbados. Studies how the writers of the time portrayed themselves during this period and what their state of mind contributes to a notion of col...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Early American studies.
Main Author: Donegan, Kathleen
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014], ©2014.
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > History > Sources.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > Historiography.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History > Sources.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Historiography.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865 > History > Sources.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865 > Historiography.
United States > Colonization > History > Sources.
United States > Colonization > Historiography.
Barbados > Colonization > History > Sources.
Barbados > Colonization > Historiography.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > Sources.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Historiography.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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