Colonial Virginia /
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| Author / Creator: | Morton, Richard L. (Richard Lee), 1889-1974. |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill, Published for the Virginia Historical Society by the University of North Carolina Press, 1960. |
| Description: | 2 volumes (xiv, 883 pages) : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsimiles ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1961936 |
Table of Contents:
- v. 1. The Tidewater period, 1607-1710
- v. 2. Westward expansion and prelude to Revolution, 1710-1763.
- Vol. 1. Beginnings
- The Charter of 1609 and the Starving Time
- The "joviall weed"
- The beginning of representative government
- Maids and a massacre
- The decline of the Virginia Company
- Virginia becomes a Royal Colony
- New frontiers and a mutiny
- Royal Colony and Commonwealth, 1642-1660
- Virginia under Commonwealth and Protectorate
- Fifteen years of trouble
- Explorations and tribulations
- Indian war : the background of rebellion
- Bacon's Rebellion : the June assembly of 1676
- Bacon's Rebellion : civil war
- Aftermath of rebellion
- Governor Culpeper : tyranny continued
- Lord Howard of Effingham
- The Glorious Revolution of 1688
- Sir Edmund Andros
- The new capital at Middle Plantation
- Huguenots and pirates
- The recall of Nicholson
- Governor Edward Nott
- Vol. 2. Alexander Spotswood
- Land grants and the Tobacco Law of 1713
- Spotswood's Indian policy
- Spotswood breaks with the Assembly
- Spotswood opens the door to the West
- Politicians and pirates
- Spotswood and the Church
- Spotswood : Virginia gentleman
- Williamsburg : an incorporated city
- Hugh Drysdale and Robert Carter
- Governor William Gooch
- Thirteen years of problems and progress
- Westward expansion in the Rappahannock and Potomac basins
- Westward expansion in the James and Roanoke river basins
- Expansion beyond the Alleghenies
- The coming of the Presbyterians
- Robert Dinwiddie : background to war
- The pistole fee controversy
- The undeclared war with the French and Indians
- Washington's first battle
- Braddock's defeat on the Monongahela
- Terror on the frontier
- British reverses in America
- Francis Fauquier and the end of the war
- The Cherokee war in the south
- The Proclamation of 1763 and financial problems
- The Parsons' Cause : the clergy and the Commissary
- The Parsons' Cause : the College and the Visitors
- The Two-Penny Act, the clergy, and the Committee of Correspondence
- The Parsons' Cause, the Committee of Correspondence, and the Constitution
- Virginia in 1763.