The Virginia Venture : : American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660 / / Misha Ewen.
The Virginia Venture is an innovative exploration of how a wider public of women, children, and men across English society contributed to the foundation of the first permanent English colony in America: Jamestown, Virginia. Drawing on sources from dozens of archives in the United States and England,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Early Modern Americas
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Circulating Ideas: Print, Rumor, and Material Samples
- Chapter 2. Adventuring Purses: Virginia Company Investors
- Chapter 3. Creating Capital: Lotteries and Charitable Collections
- Chapter 4. Mobilizing Labor and Welfare Reform
- Chapter 5. Domesticating Tobacco and Moral Economy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- Acknowledgments