The Greate Charter Dissected: an Intro The Greate Charter formalized and institutionalized an economic development settlement-workforce-cluster-building strategy nexus and incentive “package”. That strategy and incentive
Author: edcurmudgeon
Pivot to Permanent Settlement: the Big Picture, the Fifth Dynamic, Virginia’s Shredded “non-Urban” Community, Paving the Road to Tobacco Monoculture, and the Macro Plantation gives way to the Micro
Prologue Let’s get to the point early. There is much at stake in this module. At stake in the module is its discussion of events,
the Road to Tobacco Road: Tobacco as a Cluster & Gazelle, Rolfe and Pocahontas as Entrepreneurs, Dynamics Drive Virginia not Company, Joint Stock & the Plantation, and the James River as Tobacco Alley.
Ostensibly this module focuses on the initial development of Virginia’s tobacco mono culture in the period, 1611-1616. We all know John Rolfe did it. Many
The 1609/1613 Crisis-Restructuring the Virginia Company and the Colony from the Perspective of the Company and Colony-Building
The Approach Taken in this Module I strongly believe the Virginia Company and the Jamestown Era were more impactful on Virginia’s economic and political development,
On the Ground in Virginia: the Perfect Storm
So the Virginia Company’s board of directors sent over 104 adventurers, including a goodly number of refugees from the English “enclosure movement”, on three ships,
Elizabethan Mercantilism, the Rise of England, and the start of England’s Commercial Revolution: From the Perspective of the Virginia Company
Prologue So far the history treated the Jamestown experience, if less personalistic, within the paradigm recognizable to contemporary Americans. Americans, understandably, are most concerned with