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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident. |
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"Although this volume centers on the events of a sweltering summer in the Chesapeake Tidewater, it began life in the mountains of northern New England. It grew out of a conference hosted at Dartmouth College in the spring of 2017 ..."--Acknowledgments page. |
| Contents |
Introduction / James Horn and Paul Musselwhite -- Before 1619 / Peter C. Mancall -- "The savages of Virginia our project" : the Powhatans in Jacobean political thought / Lauren Working -- Race, conflict, and exclusion in Ulster, Ireland, and Virginia / Nicholas Canny -- Virginia slavery in Atlantic context, 1550 to 1650 / Philip D. Morgan -- Bermuda and the beginnings of Black Anglo-America / Michael J. Jarvis -- "Poore Soules" : migration, labor, and visions for commonwealth in Virginia / Misha Ewen -- Private plantation : the political economy of land in early Virginia / Paul Musselwhite -- "A part of that commonwealth hetherto too much neglected" : Virginia's contested "publick" and the origins of the General Assembly / Alexander B. Haskell -- Company-commonwealth / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- "These doubtfull times, between us and the Indians" : indigenous politics and the Jamestown Colony in 1619 / James D. Rice -- Brase's case : making slave law as customary law in Virginia's general court, 1619-1625 / Paul D. Halliday -- Virginia and the Amazonian alternative / Melissa N. Morris -- From John Smith to Adam Smith : Virginia and the founding conventions of English long-distance settler colonization / Jack P. Greene. |
| Local Note |
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Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Virginia -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
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Virginia. |
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Politics and government. |
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To 1775 |
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African Americans -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
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17th century |
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Indians of North America -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century.
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Indians of North America. |
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Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century.
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Slavery. |
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Democracy -- United States -- History.
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Democracy. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Internet resources.
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| Added Author |
Musselwhite, Paul, editor.
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Mancall, Peter C., editor.
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Horn, James, 1953- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Virginia 1619. Williamsburg, Virginia : Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469652016 (DLC) 2018058603 (OCoLC)1052455610 |
| ISBN |
9781469651804 (electronic book) |
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1469651807 (electronic book) |
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9781469651811 (electronic book) |
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1469651815 (electronic book) |
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9781469652016 |
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1469652013 |
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9781469651798 |
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1469651793 |
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