Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. an Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based Upon Original and Contemporaneous

Publisher Marketing: Title: Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. An inquiry into the material condition of the people, based upon original and contemporaneous records. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the European settlements in North America through independence, with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain. Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual framework of this collection highlights 16th century English, Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bruce, Philip Alexander; 1896. 2 vol.; 8 . 9605.c.22. Contributor Bio:  Bruce, Philip Alexander Philip Alexander Bruce was a prolific Virginian historian who specialized in the history of the Commonwealth. Bruce was born in 1856 to a plantation family in Charlotte County, Virginia. He studied literature and history at the University of Virginia, graduating in 1876, and went on to earn an LL. B. from Harvard University in 1879. He served as the corresponding secretary of the Virginia Historical Society and was awarded honorary doctorates at both William and Mary College and Washington and Lee University. In the final decade of his life, he co-authored the comprehensive five-volume History of Virginia with fellow Virginian historians Lyon Gardiner Tyler and Richard Lee Morton. He passed away at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1933 after a long illness.