Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial VirginiaLSU Press, 2004 - 290 páginas Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era. An Oxford-educated playwright, soldier, and diplomat, Berkeley won appointment as governor of Virginia in 1641 after a decade in the court of King Charles I: Between his arrival in James-town the following year and his death, Berkeley became Virginia's leading politician and planter, indelibly stamping his ambitions, accomplishments, and, ultimately, his failures upon the colony. In a masterly biography, Warren M. Billings offers the first full-scale treatment of Berkeley's life, revealing the extent to which Berkeley shaped early Virginia and linking his career to the wider context of seventeenth-century Anglo-American history. Under Berkeley's rule, Virgina increased trade with markets in North America, the West Indies, and Holland Berkeley's plantation, Green Spring, served as a model for Virginia's planter aristocracy, and his creation of the General Assembly helped establish the origins of American political self-awareness. But his increasingly questionable policies also precipitated Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, which prompted tighter control of Virginia from London and Berkeley's r |
Contenido
EARLY YEARS | 1 |
AT THE KINGS COURT | 12 |
A TIME TO LEAVE A TIME TO BEGIN ANEW | 29 |
SETTLING DOWN | 39 |
THE HOUSE AT GREEN SPRING | 58 |
BARGAINS WITH GREAT MEN | 79 |
AN ENFORCED RETIREMENT | 113 |
RETURN TO POWER | 123 |
CAROLINA | 163 |
VIRGINIAS CURE | 174 |
AGE AND MISFORTUNE HAVE WITHERED MY DESIRES | 210 |
A BACON A BACON A BACON | 232 |
DISGRACE | 248 |
THAT HIS DAYS SHOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED | 267 |
ESSAY ON SOURCES | 275 |
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Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia Warren M. Billings Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia Warren M. Billings Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia Warren M. Billings Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Términos y frases comunes
Albemarle Arlington Assembly Bacon Bacon's Rebellion Bennett Berke Berkeley's Berry and Moryson Billings Calvert Carolina Chapel Hill Charles Charles II Charles's Chesapeake Chicheley Clarendon Papers Colonial Virginia colonists colony's commission commissioners comp councillors county courts Coventry Papers Crown diversification Drummond Dutch earl Edward England English favor Ferrar Francis Moryson Francis Wyatt governor Green Spring House Hening Henry Henry Chicheley History House of Burgesses Indians instructions James Jamestown Jamestown Rediscovery Jeffreys June king king's land letter Little Parliament London Lord Lower Norfolk County Ludwell Majesties Maryland Mathews McIlwaine merchants militia Northern Neck patent peace planters political Privy Council proprietors records Richard Richmond royal Samuel Mathews Secretary Sept session settlers Seventeenth Century ships silk Sir Charles Berkeley Sir John Sir William Berkeley Statutes at Large stint Thomas tion tobacco took town trade Tradescants Virginia Company VMHB William Claiborne Wyatt York
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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 J. H. Elliott Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |