Virginia Table of Contents

                      A.  The Virginia Company Period, 1550 to 1629 Vol 1

                      B. Virginia 1629 thru Berkeley Vol 2

                      C. Virginia thru Statehood Vol 3    [See Below]

                                  More than a first draft, not quite a second. Readable, not ready for prime time

 

Bacon’s Rebellion and Virginia without Berkeley

 Bottoms Up Tilt of Virginia’s Policy System

1.  Tidewater “New Dominion” Elite Political Culture

2. Settlement of the Piedmont and Rise of the Piedmont Plantation Elite

3. Planter Oligarchy Takes over Counties

4. Governor Alexander Spotswood

5.  Shenandoah Settlement: Foothills of the Appalachians: Formation of Land Development Companies

6. the Evolution of the Tidewater “New Dominion Political Culture

7. The Back Country, Drift to Independence, the Interrupted Revolution, the Primeval Pond

8.  Follow up on the Interrupted Revolution

9.  Political Evolution of the Tidewater Elites

10. 1763 Proclamation Act

11. George Washington Crosses over the Proclamation Line

12. North Carolina War of Regulation: Back Country Populism

13. Virginia’s Singular Path to the Revolutionary War Policy System

15. Virginia Writes a Constitution

16. Virginia Policy System During the Revolutionary War

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