Early Modern Virginia

Reconsidering the Old Dominion

Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs, Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780813931494
• eBook ISBN: 9780813931708
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early American History
• Index: History

This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond. The contributors represent some of the best of a younger generation of scholars who are building on, but also criticizing and moving beyond, the work of the so-called Chesapeake School of social history that dominated the historiography of the region in the 1970s and 1980s. Employing a variety of methodologies, analytical strategies, and types of evidence, these essays explore a wide range of topics and offer a fresh look at the early religious, political, economic, social, and intellectual life of the colony.

Contributors
Douglas Bradburn, Binghamton University, State University of New York * John C. Coombs, Hampden-Sydney College * Victor Enthoven, Netherlands Defense Academy * Alexander B. Haskell, University of California Riverside * Wim Klooster, Clark University * Philip Levy, University of South Florida * Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University * William A. Pettigrew, University of Kent * Edward DuBois Ragan, Valentine Richmond History Center * Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton * Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University * Lorena S. Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Eschatological Origins of the English Empire
• Mutual Appraisals: The Shifting Paradigms of the English, Spanish, and Powhatans in Tsenacomoco, 1560–1622
• The Rise and Fall of the Virginia-Dutch Connection in the Seventeenth Century
• “To Seeke for Justice”: Gender, Servitude, and Household Governance in the Early Modern Chesapeake
• Deference, Defiance, and the Language of Office in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
• Middle Plantation’s Changing Landscape: Persistence, Continuity, and the Building of Community
• “Scatter’d upon the English Seats”: Indian Identity and Land Occupancy in the Rappahannock River Valley
• Beyond the “Origins Debate”: Rethinking the Rise of Virginia Slavery
• Transatlantic Politics and the Africanization of Virginia’s Labor Force, 1688–1712
• Conclusion: The Future of Chesapeake Studies
• Notes on Contributors
• Index