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
Artisans: Who are they?
Western Continental Europe, especially the UK, had begun diversifying from medieval-feudal agriculture and supporting feudal class system at points throughout the sixteenth century, and in
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
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