As the Twig is Bent, So Grows the Tree

Volume 1: Virginia Company Period: Virginia’s Birth

Prologue to Virginia Company Period 1st Draft Virginia Historiographic Paradigms 1st Draft Henry VII thru Elizabeth I

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

Virginia Company‘s Inheritance from England: Pivot to Overseas Commerce 1500 to Virginia Company Incorporation

Elizabeth’s Impact on the Future Virginia Company: Her Inheritance to the American Colonies

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

Outer Port’s 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