The upper Rappahannock Valley on the Piedmont central plateau warrants a special treatment. Through it was made the initial entry over the Blue Ridge mountains
Category: As the Twig is Bent
Diversifying: Transition Away from Self-Sufficiency to a Growth Strategy through Agglomerations-Clusters
After the Queen Anne’s War (1714), and the subsequent transition to peace recession, the self-sufficiency strategy nexus increasingly gave way to a more simply strategy
Pennsylvania’s Self-Sufficiency Strategy 1682 to 1720:
Intro With hindsight we know Penn’s urban and economic development plans never took root. Before he ever arrived in America, his planners and founding
British Colonial Policy: Mercantilism
I continually harp that the period we examine is a transition period–a rather long and indefinite-multi-faceted one–that arguably started with the English enclosure movement, the
Self-Sufficiency ED Strategy Nexus: Underlying Logic of a Colonial Self-Sufficiency Strategy I
Imagine being taken to a virgin field, a very large one, in the middle of nowhere, and being instructed by your boss that you must
Introduction and Context: Economic Base-Building: Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
This module delves into critical elements of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s economic base-building. After a short introduction-comment, I address the competitive hierarchical forces that exerted notable
Ron W. Coan 