A. The Starving Years: English Colonialism falls flat on its ass!
1. Settlement, Rather the Plantation, Gone Wrong: the First Starving Years: 1607-1610
B. Let’s Begin our Story not in London to best understand what happens in Jamestown. Was the Virginia Company That Dumb? Or Is the Big Picture in England more important than Jamestown?
2. Elizabethan Mercantilism, Rise of England and England’s Commercial Revolution — From the Perspective of the Virginia Company
3. Incorporation of the Virginia Company: the North American Company: Structure, Politics and Strategies
4. The Virginia Company Attempts to Follow the British East India Company and Runs Aground on the Shoals of the Ulster “Plantation as a Colony” Paradigm
5. Learning from Mistakes: Rewriting the Virginia Company Charter and Corporate Restructure The Experiment That Failed
C. Pivot to Permanent Settlement: Thomas Dale’s Gift, the Road to Tobacco Road, the Greate Charter, the Massacre and its aftereffects, and the Fall of the Company
6. Virginia Plantation’s Business Plan Restructured after 1612: Dale’s Gift as Pivot
7. the Road to Tobacco Road: Tobacco as Innovation Gazelle: Rolfe and Pocahontas the Entrepreneurs, Virginia Company Owners as VC Investors, Tobacco and the Plantation on which it grew, and the James River as Tobacco Alley.
8. The Greate Charter of 1618-21 Part I: the Office Politics of the London Virginia Company. The Settlement Policy of Sir Edwin Sandys
9. The Greate Charter of 1618-21 Part II: Headright Nexus, Late Medieval Corporate Democracy, and the Tobacco Contract Pours the Foundation for Virginia’s Monoculture Export Economic Base
10. First and Second Powhatan Wars: Entry of Native Americans into our History
11. Reacting to Powhatan War Virginia’s First Policy System Emerges: Tidewater Settlement & Plantation Conquistadores, Militia, County Courts, Right to Tax, and Anglican Church
OPTIONAL: BACKGROUND, CONCEPTUAL INTRODUCTION TO ED STRATEGY NEXUS
Opening the North American Door: Settlement and the Self-Sufficiency ED Strategy Nexus: Perspective from the Virginia Joint Stock Company-a private corporate approach to Colony-Building.
Self Sufficiency ED Strategy Nexus; Defining Self-Sufficiency, the Precondition to Establishing the Initial Policy System, Economic Base and the Settlement Strategy
An Intro to British Colonial Policy: Elizabeth to James I: Mercantilism, Privatization of Elizabethan and Stuart Colonialization: Transition from Trading Factory/Privateering to Permanent Settlement
The Plantation Strategy: Ireland, Sir Francis Bacon, and its Adjustment to the New World
Ron W. Coan 