Books written by Warren M. Billings

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  The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700: Easyread Edition

  Martin's. Scheme. for. Defeating. the. Indians,. 1622. Kingsbury, ed., The Records of the Virginia Company of London, III, 704–707. The manner howe to bring in the Indians into subjection without makinge an utter exterpation of them ...

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  Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia

  Sir William Berkeley (16051677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying VirginiaÆs trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and helping to establish American ...

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  Colonial Virginia: A History

  This book looks at the the colony of Virginia and the underlying tensions and insecurities that characterized it from the beginning. This includes a work force dominated by bound laborers;...

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  "Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia

  ... Understanding the Federal Compact in the Early Republic,” William and Mary Law Review 47 (2006): 1327–29; and Ellen Holmes Pearson, Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic (Charlottesville, 2011), 27–29.

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  Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia

  ... 1939), 134–35; Thomas Garden Barnes, Somerset, 1625–1640: A County's Government during the “Personal Rule” (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), 18–40; Theodore K. Rabb, Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561–1629 (Princeton, 1998). 6.

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  A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century

  This book examines the founding and evolution of the oldest legislative body in the New World. The Virginia assembly developed legislative traditions that provided the basis of the American form...

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  A Law unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History

  The ten essays in this volume -- which address law in the state through the nineteenth century -- mark the coming of age of the New Louisiana Legal History.

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  Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia

  In this 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 ...

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  The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700: Easyread Large Bold Edition

  ... the General Assembly authorized them to try all cases in common law and equity, the justices frequently sat as a court of chancery to determine suits for which there was no relief by statute or at the common law (Document 16E) ...

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  The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700: Easyread Large Bold Edition

  tenure, common law, and representative government. In part, then, Rolfe's successes had also contributed to the transformation of Virginia from a quasimilitary outpost to an agricultural society. Following Virginia's reorganization in ...

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  Statute Law in Colonial Virginia: Governors, Assemblymen, and the Revisals That Forged the Old Dominion

  ... Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists: Maryland and the Politics of Religion in the English Atlantic, 1630–1690 Antoinette Sutto The Road to Black Ned's Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier Turk ...

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  The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689

  This book is a convenient collection of seventeenth-century Virginia documentary source material. Using the observations, descriptions, and legal documents of the colonists themselves, this book makes it possible to reconstruct...

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  The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700

  Freshly rethought chapter introductions and suggested readings incorporate the vast scholarship of the past 30 years. New illustrations of seventeenth-century artifacts and buildings enrich the texts with recent archaeological findings.

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  The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689

  This book is a convenient collection of seventeenth-century Virginia documentary source material. Using the observations, descriptions, and legal documents of the colonists themselves, this book makes it possible to reconstruct...

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  An Uncommon Experience: Law and Judicial Institutions in Louisiana, 1803-2003

  Explores the resulting mixed jurisprudence that is similar, but also different from that of other Southern states or the nation.