We return to our cycle of book reviews by Virginia history eras with a blog for Early Colonial Virginia, 1600-1712. The list of thirteen titles are made up from those found in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 2012-2014. There are three in “First Years”, three in “Growth of Empire”, four in “Established Colony”...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we explore the evolution of religious freedom surveying Virginia history “From Jamestown to Jefferson”. Virginia colonial history and environment is surveyed from pre-contact to the Age of Jefferson in “Nature and History in the Potomac Country”. The rise and decline of the Early Colonial gentry in the Late Colonial period...
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To begin this Virginia History Blog on the Early Colonial Era, we look at first landing settlements. “A Kingdom Strange” explores the settlement of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. “Pocahontas, Little Wanton” documents early English accounts, verifiable history and subsequent narratives, plays and pictures. “The Web of Empire” places the Virginia colony initially as a...
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In our first Virginia History Blog installment of Colonial Virginia Era history from Summer 2018 journals, we look at four titles. “For God, King, and People” distinguishes between the Renaissance mindset of the early Virginia investors and venturers and the anachronistic interpretation of commercialism. “Jamestown, the Truth Revealed” is an update of archeological and historical...
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This Virginia History Blog assembles four reviews related to Early and Late Colonial Virginia warfare, both English colonial civil war and Anglo-Amerindian conflicts. For those interested in reading more deeply into mid-1600s Virginia, beyond the previously reviewed Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia by Warren M. Billings which was one of our...
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The Virginia History Blog today looks at Early Colonial contact and culture Virginia through the reviews of five titles. “A Briefe and True Report” is a facsimile of a 1590 Latin edition with English translation and illustrated contemporary lithographs, reporting initial contact with native Algonquins, plants and animals found in the Chesapeake region. “Deadly Politics...
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In this Virginia History Blog, we begin our first digest of reviews from current journals about Colonial Era Virginia. Two are environmental histories, “A Cold Welcome” about the Little Ice Age, and “Wild by Nature” about marketed indigenous Southeast wildlife. “Esteemed Bookes of Lawe” concerns legal libraries of colonial Virginia and the training of the...
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At the four-hundred year anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia several books celebrated the event, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography featured a review article of a number of them altogether. Several are still readily available from their publishers. Two have previously been reviewed here as among the our Virginia Survey Bibliographies...
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Our second look at the royal colony in 1600s Virginia begins with a look at how the English immigrants in the Chesapeake built their society. “Adapting to a New World” describes the English overseas, “Ann Orthwood’s Bastard” shows how English customary and common law was modified for producer-planter interests, and “The Formation of a Society”...
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In this blog we look at the early colony of Virginia in Jamestown, 1607-1620s, the period of struggle resulting in an English template for future colonial success after a succession of near disasters. “A Tale of Two Colonies” looks at the contemporary English colonization efforts in Virginia and Bermuda of the early 1600s. “Pocahontas and...
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