English Empire in America 1602-1658

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. Introduction; Chapter 1 Deep Background; Chapter 2 Genesis; Chapter 3 Birth Pangs; Chapter 4 Fatal and Near-Fatal Attractions; Chapter 5 An Empire of ‘Smoak’; Chapter 6 Some Measure of Success;