The History and Present State of Virginia

A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish

By:

Robert Beverley

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

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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 thorough going 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.

Author Biography:

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 and author of American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.

Release date Australia

February 28th, 2018

Author

Robert Beverley

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Susan Scott Parrish

Illustrations

16 halftones

Pages

384

Series

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

ISBN-13

9781469642376

Product ID

27459320

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