Sir William Berkeley And The Forging Of Colonial Virginia (Southern Biography)
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Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era. An Oxford-educated playwright, soldier, and diplomat, Berkeley won appointment as governor of Virginia in 1641 after a decade in the court of King Charles I: Between his arrival in James-town the following year and his death, Berkeley became Virginia's leading politician and planter, indelibly stamping his ambitions, accomplishments, and, ultimately, his failures upon the colony. In a masterly biography, Warren M. Billings offers the first full-scale treatment of Berkeley's life, revealing the extent to which Berkeley shaped early Virginia and linking his career to the wider context of seventeenth-century Anglo-American history. Under Berkeley's rule, Virgina increased trade with markets in North America, the West Indies, and Holland Berkeley's plantation, Green Spring, served as a model for Virginia's planter aristocracy, and his creation of the General Assembly helped establish the origins of American political self-awareness. But his increasingly questionable policies also precipitated Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, which prompted tighter control of Virginia from London and Berkeley's r
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807130125
ISBN13:9780807130124
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:Louisiana State Univ Pr
Length:290 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
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