Virginia: 1629 thru Berkeley Vol 2

The Maryland Thing and the Rise of Brenner’s New Men

6. William Claiborne, the Claiborne Clique, Brenner’s  New Men and the Kent Island Pivot to Trade and Finance away from the Tobacco Monoculture 

8. Follow the Money: Formation of An Elite Faction–Brenner’s ‘New Men’ & Virginia’s Contribution to the Evolution of English Modern Capitalism  

9. English Commercial Revolution Begins: 1620-1630’s Shift from Gentry London City Trading Company Merchants to Young “New Men”

Planter Oligarchy Takes Shape

8. the 1630’s: Expansion of the Monoculture into the Middle Peninsula, conquistadors and the larger plantation owners achieve class conscious and fuse their local and economic power into the provincial policy system through their control of the county. The Tilt become real.

9. Virginia’s Planter and Conquistador Oligarchy Settle In and Governor John Harvey Takes Away their Punchbowl

C. 1630-1639 The Tumultuous Thirties: Trusting Out of Governor John Harvey and the Birth of Virginia’s Policy System

  1. John Harvey, his Thrusting Out, and the 1639 Deal that “legitimized” Virginia Self-Rule
  2. My Policy-Making Version of John Harvey’s Thrusting Out
  3. We Can’t Understand Virginia’s Thrusting Out Without Understanding the London Side of the Story: London-Based Hybrid Policy System
  4. the Motherland Can Bend the Twig Too 
  5. Who Was John Harvey? What Happened in Virginia During His First Administration? What Hornet’s Nests Did He Stir Up?
  6. The Birth of the Virginia Policy System; the “Deal”. the Parameters of Virginia Self Rule

D. Governor William Berkeley: Virginia’s First Economic Developer Imports an Elite Complete with Political Culture;

Sir William Berkeley: Starts off Well and Jump-Starts the Hybrid Virginia Policy System

William Berkeley: His Appointment and First Year in Office, 1642

1643-June 1644: Berkeley Completes the Formation of Virginia’s Second Policy System, Going Native, His Trading with the Dutch Policy, Surprise Attack by Powhatans in March 1644, and his Return to England in June 44 to June 45

the Development of Counties and Failure to Develop Port Cities

Berkeley’s Completes his First Administration, the Interregnum 1652 and Berkeley’s Retirement Virginia Copes with the “Center”: Civil War, Commonwealth, Protectorate

Berkeley’s Retirement and Second Administration