Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion

Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs

University of Virginia Press, 2011 - History - 350 pages

This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond. The contributors represent some of the best of a younger generation of scholars who are building on, but also criticizing and moving beyond, the work of the so-called Chesapeake School of social history that dominated the historiography of the region in the 1970s and 1980s. Employing a variety of methodologies, analytical strategies, and types of evidence, these essays explore a wide range of topics and offer a fresh look at the early religious, political, economic, social, and intellectual life of the colony.

Contributors
Douglas Bradburn, Binghamton University, State University of New York * John C. Coombs, Hampden-Sydney College * Victor Enthoven, Netherlands Defense Academy * Alexander B. Haskell, University of California Riverside * Wim Klooster, Clark University * Philip Levy, University of South Florida * Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University * William A. Pettigrew, University of Kent * Edward DuBois Ragan, Valentine Richmond History Center * Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton * Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University * Lorena S. Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

About the author

Douglas Bradburn, Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York, is the author of The Citizenship Revolution: Politics and the Making of the American Union, 1774–1804. John C. Coombs is Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion; Book collections on Project MUSE; Early American histories, ISSN 2690-7828
• Editors: Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0813931495, 9780813931494
• Length: 350 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)