As the Twig is Bent, So Grows the Tree

Volume 1: Virginia Company Period: Virginia’s Birth

Prologue to Virginia Company Period 1st Draft          

Chapter 1: Not Ready for Prime Time: Medieval England in Transition Turns from Commerce and Trade to Colonization by Incorporating the Virginia Company

Importance of the Virginia Company to its Future Political, Economic, and Social Development: A Reassessment of the Virginia Company as a Virginia’s English Inheritance

Virginia Company as an Element of England’s Elizabethan Pivot to Overseas Commerce and Colonization: The Company as an Output of a Medieval Elizabethan Policy Process

Selected Themes from England’s History Relevant to the Virginia Company

London’s Path to the Virginia Company                  Merchant Joint Stock Trading Companies

Outer Ports Path to the Virginia Company:            English Exploration of North America

Chapter 2: Incorporation of the Virginia Company and its First Charter: Politics and Process Amid the Tudor-Stuart Transition

Essex Rebellion & the Virginia Company  Who are Thomas Smythe, Edwin Sandys, Earl of Southampton the Tudors:

Tudor-Stuart Transitional Incorporation of the Virginia Company

1606 Charter: Not Ready for Prime Time                 Tudor-Early Stuart American Colonialism

Virginia Under the Shadow of Ulster  Where is the Navy and the Redcoat Army

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

Chapter 3: the Implosion of the First Charter, the Politics of Virginia Company Reorganization and Second Charter, and Virginia Descends into the Hell that was the ‘Starving Year’

First Powhattan War

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             

Chapter 4: 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. 

the Road to Tobacco Road: Spread of the Tobacco Monoculture

Stuart Foreign Policy-Making Evolves: Virginia Company Implications

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

1618-22: Sandys Updates Hakluyt, Virginia‘s Last Hurrah

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

Second Powhattan War and Virginians Semi-Formally Assumes Self-Governance Implosion of the Virginia Company: Suspension of its Virginia Charter

Chapter 5: the Implosion: Virginia is on its Own, : Inside Virginia While London Virginia Company Burns, Virginia’s First Policy System Emerges, 1625-1630: Transition from Virginia Company to Royal Administration: the Twenties

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 Creates an Elite  

Chapter 6: Virginia’s development and social-economic configuration  in early royal governance

1. 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 

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

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

4. 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