Author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of BurgessesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1702/3-1705, 1705-1706, 1710-1712
Author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of BurgessesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A Very Mutinous People
Author: Noeleen McIlvennaPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807887919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation society late in the seventeenth century to create the first successful European colony in the Albemarle, in present-day North Carolina. Making their way through the Great Dismal Swamp, runaway servants from Virginia joined other renegades to establish a free society along the most inaccessible Atlantic coastline of North America. They created a new community on the banks of Albemarle Sound, maintaining peace with neighboring Native Americans, upholding the egalitarian values of the English Revolution, and ignoring the laws of the mother country. Tapping into previously unused documents, McIlvenna explains how North Carolina's first planters struggled to impose a plantation society upon the settlers and how those early small farmers, defending a wide franchise and religious toleration, steadfastly resisted. She contends that the story of the Albemarle colony is a microcosm of the greater process by which a conglomeration of loosely settled, politically autonomous communities eventually succumbed to hierarchical social structures and elite rule. Highlighting the relationship between settlers and Native Americans, this study leads to a surprising new interpretation of the Tuscarora War.
Statute Law in Colonial Virginia
Author: Warren M. BillingsPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813945658
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia’s General Assembly revised the colony’s statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal fabric. In Statute Law in Colonial Virginia, Warren Billings presents a series of snapshots that depict the seven revisions of the corpus juris the General Assembly undertook. In so doing, he highlights the good, the corrupt, and the loathsome applications of broad legislative authority throughout the colonial era. Each revision was built on prior written law and embodies the members’ legal knowledge and statutory craftsmanship, revealing their use of an unbridled discretion to further the interests they represented. Statutes undergirded Virginia’s evolving legal culture, and by examining these revisals and their links, Billings casts light on the hybrid nature of Virginia statute law and its relation to English laws.
Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Dictionary Catalog of the Edward E. Ayer Collection of Americana and American Indians in the Newberry Library
Author: Newberry LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
The Colonial Virginia Register
Author: Publisher: Albany, N.Y., J. Munsell's sons
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Making the Empire Work
Author: Alison Gilbert OlsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674543188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Annotation Olson (history, U. of Maryland) argues that, until the eve of the revolution, the British crown could rule its American colonies peacefully with so few administrators because an extensive network of voluntary interest groups, tying the colonies and London, allowed colonists a measure of influence over the central government. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description