ABSTRACT

This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter |13 pages

Deep Background

chapter |15 pages

Genesis

chapter |21 pages

Birth Pangs

chapter |27 pages

An Empire of ‘Smoak'

chapter |19 pages

Some Measure of Success