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1. The civic solution to the crisis of English colonization, 1609-1625.

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Fitzmaurice, Andrew

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*COLONIAL United States, ca. 1600-1775, BRITISH colonies
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Discusses the civic aims of the Virginia Company for its colony, which was the first permanent English settlement in America in the early 17th century. Civic tradition hostile to commerce; Portrayal of wealth as Asiatic luxury and corruption; Commercial and human disasters characterizing the colony's first years; Ideological motivation for potential investors and colonists.

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1999
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