Intro As the Twig is Bent, So Grows the Tree

Volume 1 The Virginia Company Period and Heritage: Virginia’s Birth

Prologue to Virginia Company Period 1st Draft      Virginia Historiographic Paradigms 1st Draft                

Chapter 1: the Main Narrative        Background & Perspective 

England’s Inheritage, the Virginia Company           Henry VII thru Elizabeth I: Pre-1550 

London’s Path to the Virginia Company                    the Great Merchant Trading Companies

Outer Port’s Path to the Virginia Company:            English Exploration of North America         

 Tudor Stuart Transition                                                 Essex Rebellion & the Virginia Company  

       

Who are Thomas Smythe, Edwin Sandys, Earl of Southampton

1606 Charter: Not Ready for Prime Time                 Tudor-Early Stuart American Colonialism                                                                                                   Where is the Navy and the Redcoat Army

Elizabethan Influence on the Virginia Company 

Virginia Project 1607-08–London’s  View                  Virginia Under the Shadow of Ulster  Plantation Gone Wrong: Starving Years                     Plantation (aka Bacon’s Colony)

 

Company Adjusts to Settlement Strategy

Restructuring Virginia Company 1609 Charter

                                                                                             Restating my Position: the Virginia                                                                                                               Company was broken from its start

Gates, the Jamestown Implosion, de La Warr, and Dale Expeditions  

Military Regime; Its Role in Virginia Political Development

Behind the 1612 Charter: the Legacy it Created             

the Road to Tobacco Road: Spread of the Tobacco Monoculture

As Good as it Gets–the Eventful “Tweens”:  1613-1622: Tudor-Stuart court transition, Virginia Company office politics, reorganization, a new permanent settlement strategy, change in leadership, and the Greate Charter. 

Stuart Foreign Policy-Making Evolves: Virginia Company Implications

The Tweens, 1613-22:The Pivotal Decade of the Virginia Company: Intro and Road Map

the Not-So-Greate Charter of 1618-22: Sandys Updates Hakluyt, but it’s not enuf: Life as it was in Virginia

the Equally Important Greate Charter Period in London: Full Scale Civil War Shatters the Virginia Company

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  Early Draft

Implosion of the Virginia Company: Suspension of its Virginia Charter

First-Second Powhattan War

the Implosion: Virginia is on its Own

The Flip Side of the Coin: Inside Virginia While London Virginia Company Burns

Virginia’s First Policy System Emerges

 

B.1625-1630: Transition from Virginia Company to Royal Administration: the Twenties

Royal Assumption of Virginia Governance: 

1, The King Fails to Commit. Implications of his Failure to Commit

2. Virginia? Lost in London’s Limbo 1625-1630: The Political Vacuum that was Virginia 

3. Rhythm of the Beat 1625-1642: First Migration & Policy System’s Importance to Virginia’s History; Where’s the King?; Shredded Community; Tobacco’s Unique Qualities; and Semi-Anarchy Can Create an Elite  

Virginia’s development and social-economic configuration  in early royal governance

1. Pre-1650 Tidewater Immigrant: Ingredients of the Future Tidewater Political Culture 

2. The Wild Bunch: the controversial and much disliked thugs who set up Virginia’s First Policy System

3. the Land: the shredded community settlement pattern and its core foundations, a supportive political culture based on an elite-non elite leadership/ownership and workforce that dovetailed with the tobacco steamroller

4. the Second Powhatan War: its effect on settlement, formation of Virginia elites, expansion into the Middle Peninsula, the Tobacco Depression, its signature Palisades Project-AND English colonization as zero sum Indian conquest