 | Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion Subjects: Virginia -- History -- 17th century; Virginia -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Virginia -- Economic conditions -- 17th century; 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, 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. |
