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Book Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia

Download or read book Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia written by Warren M. Billings and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Berkeley (1605--1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia's trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and helping to establish American self-rule. An Oxford-educated playwright, soldier, and diplomat, Berkeley won appointment as governor of Virginia in 1641 after a decade in the court of King Charles I. Between his arrival in Jamestown and his death, Berkeley became Virginia's leading politician and planter, indelibly stamping his ambitions, accomplishments, and, ultimately, his failures upon the colony. In this masterly biography, Warren M. Billings offers the first full-scale treatment of Berkeley's life, revealing the extent to which Berkeley shaped early Virginia and linking his career to the wider context of seventeenth-century Anglo-American history.

Book Sir William Berkeley

    Book Details:
  • Author : Phelan Powell
  • Publisher : Infobase Learning
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1438144512
  • Pages : 59 pages

Download or read book Sir William Berkeley written by Phelan Powell and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a biography of the royal governor of Virginia at the time of the uprising known as Bacon's Rebellion, and presents information on his era. The governor of Virginia, Berkeley crushed Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion. Compelling portraits of American history's most notable male and female leaders. Includes informative sidebars. Interesting, easy-to-understand content. Complements school curriculum.

Book A Discourse and View of Virginia   By Sir William Berkeley

Download or read book A Discourse and View of Virginia By Sir William Berkeley written by Sir William BERKELEY and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Colonial Virginia  Book 1 3

Download or read book The History of the Colonial Virginia Book 1 3 written by Thomas J. Wertenbaker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Colonial Virginia is a three volume series dealing with the pre revolutionary Virginia. This series provides one of the best historical reviews of British rule in the New World and the life of colonial aristocracy. Contents Patrician and Plebeian The Aristocracy The Middle Class Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The Founding of Virginia The Establishment of Representative Government The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion The Period of Confusion The Critical Period The Planters of Colonial Virginia England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide

Book The Papers of Sir William Berkeley  1605 1677

Download or read book The Papers of Sir William Berkeley 1605 1677 written by Sir William Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virginia Under the Stuarts  1607 1688

Download or read book Virginia Under the Stuarts 1607 1688 written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 1914 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Discourse and View of Virginia

Download or read book A Discourse and View of Virginia written by Sir William Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Colonial Virginia under the Stuarts  1607 1688

Download or read book The History of Colonial Virginia under the Stuarts 1607 1688 written by Thomas J. Wertenbaker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 deals with the first eight decades of the colony of Virginia from the arrival of three little vessels—the Sarah Constant, the Discovery and the Goodspeed— under Captain Christopher Newport until the Glorious Revolution in England. This book covers in detail organization of the British rule as well as the formation of the new Virginian aristocracy. Contents The Founding of Virginia The Establishment of Representative Government The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion The Period of Confusion The Critical Period

Book History of the Colonial Virginia  3 Volumes Edition

Download or read book History of the Colonial Virginia 3 Volumes Edition written by Thomas J. Wertenbaker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Colonial Virginia is a three volume series dealing with the pre revolutionary Virginia. This series provides one of the best historical reviews of British rule in the New World and the life of colonial aristocracy. _x000D_ Contents_x000D_ Patrician and Plebeian_x000D_ The Aristocracy_x000D_ The Middle Class_x000D_ Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688_x000D_ The Founding of Virginia_x000D_ The Establishment of Representative Government_x000D_ The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey_x000D_ Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth_x000D_ The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion_x000D_ Bacon's Rebellion_x000D_ The Period of Confusion_x000D_ The Critical Period_x000D_ The Planters of Colonial Virginia_x000D_ England in the New World_x000D_ The Indian Weed_x000D_ The Virginia Yeomanry_x000D_ Freemen and Freedmen_x000D_ The Restoration Period_x000D_ The Yeoman in Virginia History_x000D_ World Trade_x000D_ Beneath the Black Tide

Book The Governor and the Rebel

Download or read book The Governor and the Rebel written by Wilcomb E. Washburn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive study of the unsuccessful rebellion in Virginia led in 1676 by the younger Nathaniel Bacon, celebrated in history as the rebel, against Sir William Berkeley, the colonial governor of Virginia and one of the lords proprietors of Carolina. Using all known English and American sources, Washburn sheds light on many misconceptions surrounding the episode. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book Samuel Wiseman s Book of Record

Download or read book Samuel Wiseman s Book of Record written by Samuel Wiseman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon led a well-known colonial uprising against the authority of King Charles II, in the person of Virginia's governor Sir William Berkeley. Bacon's Rebellion dramatically altered relations between Chesapeake colonists and Native Americans, and also induced late Stuart imperialists to crack down on colonial autonomy. Michael Leroy Oberg has transcribed, edited, and introduced the official record left by Samuel Wiseman, King Charles II's scribe assigned to this uprising's investigation_making this history widely available for the first time in book form.

Book Statute Law in Colonial Virginia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warren M. Billings
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2021-02-22
  • ISBN : 0813945658
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Statute Law in Colonial Virginia written by Warren M. Billings and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia’s General Assembly revised the colony’s statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal fabric. In Statute Law in Colonial Virginia, Warren Billings presents a series of snapshots that depict the seven revisions of the corpus juris the General Assembly undertook. In so doing, he highlights the good, the corrupt, and the loathsome applications of broad legislative authority throughout the colonial era. Each revision was built on prior written law and embodies the members’ legal knowledge and statutory craftsmanship, revealing their use of an unbridled discretion to further the interests they represented. Statutes undergirded Virginia’s evolving legal culture, and by examining these revisals and their links, Billings casts light on the hybrid nature of Virginia statute law and its relation to English laws.

Book The Divided Dominion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ethan A. Schmidt
  • Publisher : University Press of Colorado
  • Release : 2015-04-01
  • ISBN : 1607323087
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Divided Dominion written by Ethan A. Schmidt and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt examines the social struggle that created Bacon's Rebellion, focusing on the role of class antagonism in fostering violence toward native people in seventeenth-century Virginia. This provocative volume places a dispute among Virginians over the permissibility of eradicating Native Americans for land at the forefront in understanding this pivotal event. Myriad internal and external factors drove Virginians to interpret their disputes with one another increasingly along class lines. The decades-long tripartite struggle among elite whites, non-elite whites, and Native Americans resulted in the development of mutually beneficial economic and political relationships between elites and Native Americans. When these relationships culminated in the granting of rights—equal to those of non-elite white colonists—to Native Americans, the elites crossed a line and non-elite anger boiled over. A call for the annihilation of all Indians in Virginia united different non-elite white factions and molded them in widespread social rebellion. The Divided Dominion places Indian policy at the heart of Bacon's Rebellion, revealing the complex mix of social, cultural, and racial forces that collided in Virginia in 1676. This new analysis will interest students and scholars of colonial and Native American history.

Book No Wood  No Kingdom

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  • Author : Keith Pluymers
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2021-05-21
  • ISBN : 0812299558
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book No Wood No Kingdom written by Keith Pluymers and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespread concern. Royal officials, artisans, and common people expressed their fears in laws, petitions, and pamphlets, in which they debated the severity of the problem, speculated on its origins, and proposed solutions to it. No Wood, No Kingdom explores these conflicting attempts to understand the problem of scarcity and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies. Popular accounts have often suggested that deforestation served as a "push" for English colonial expansion. Keith Pluymers shows that wood scarcity in England, rather than a problem of absolute supply and demand, resulted from social conflict over the right to define and regulate resources, difficulties obtaining accurate information, and competing visions for trade, forestry, and the English landscape. Domestic scarcity claims did encourage schemes to develop wood-dependent enterprises in the colonies, but in practice colonies competed with domestic enterprises rather than supplanting them. Moreover, close studies of colonial governments and the actions of individual landholders in Ireland, Virginia, Bermuda, and Barbados demonstrate that colonists experimented with different, often competing approaches to colonial woods and trees, including efforts to manage them as long-term resources, albeit ones that nonetheless brought significant transformations to the land. No Wood, No Kingdom explores the efforts to knot together woods around the Atlantic basin as resources for an English empire and the deep underlying conflicts and confusion that largely frustrated those plans. It speaks to historians of early modern Europe, early America, and the Atlantic World but also offers key insights on early modern resource politics, forest management, and political ecology of interest to readers in the environmental humanities and social sciences as well as those interested in colonialism or economic history.

Book  Esteemed Bookes of Lawe  and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia

Download or read book Esteemed Bookes of Lawe and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia written by Warren M. Billings and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history of the book and the intellectual history of early America. It also addresses essential questions of how English culture migrated to the American colonies and was transformed into a distinctive American culture. Focusing on the law books that colonial Virginians acquired, how they used them, and how they eventually produced a native-grown legal literature, this collection explores the law and intellectual culture of the Commonwealth and reveals the origins of a distinctively Virginian legal literature. The contributors argue that understanding the development of early Virginia legal history—as shown through these book collections—not only illuminates important aspects of Virginia’s history and culture; it also underlies a thorough understanding of colonial and revolutionary American history and culture.

Book The History of Virginia

Download or read book The History of Virginia written by Robert Beverley and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: