3D SER., 68, NO. 3 (JULY 2011)
Forum: Transformations of Virginia: Tobacco, Slavery, and Empire
James Horn, Introduction327
John C. Coombs, The Phases of Conversion: A New Chronology for the Rise of Slavery in Early Virginia332 | Abstract
Douglas Bradburn, The Visible Fist: The Chesapeake Tobacco Trade in War and the Purpose of Empire, 690–1715361 | Abstract | Web Supplement
Lorena S. Walsh, Boom-and-Bust Cycles in Chesapeake History387
Paul G. E. Clemens, Reimagining the Political Economy of Early Virginia393
Peter A. Coclanis, Tobacco Road: New Views of the Early Chesapeake398
April Lee Hatfield, Slavery, Trade, War, and the Purposes of Empire405
William A. Pettigrew, Historicizing Supply and Demand in Early American Economic History: The Importance of Transatlantic Politics409
Alexander B. Haskell, Counsel, Slavery, and the Politics of Empire: Rediscovering the Dynamism of Virginia’s Seventeenth-Century Council of State414
Douglas Bradburn and John C. Coombs, Provincials Abroad; Or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Atlantic Seminar: More Collaborative Reflections on Chesapeake History420
Spain and the Founding of Jamestown
Abstract | Web Supplement
William S. Goldman
427
The “Bad Business” of Obeah: Power, Authority, and the Politics of Slave Culture in the British Caribbean
Abstract
Randy M. Browne
451
Reviews of Books
“Liberties of Empire,” a review essay of Zahedieh, The Capital and the Colonies: London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660–1700 ; Flavell, When London Was Capital of America; and Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. By Jane Kamensky481
“‘Nought from nought leaves nought’: Figuring Venture Smith,” a review essay of Stewart, ed., Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom. By Peter P. Hinks490
Preston, The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 667–1783. By Jon Parmenter500
Woodward, Prospero’s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 606–1676. By Richard Godbeer503
Kern, The Jeffersons at Shadwell. By Barbara B. Oberg506
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