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,
Category: Virginia to 1789
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
Governor Alexander Spotswood, Economic Development Strategies and Clash with the Planter Patriarchy
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
Ron W. Coan 