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Savage Kingdom: Virginia and the Founding of English
Contemporary Review, Spring, 2008
Savage Kingdom: Virginia and the Founding of English. Benjamin Woolley. [pounds sterling]25.00. HarperPress. ix + 467 pages. ISBN 978-0-00-713169-3. Mr Woolley is keen to place the history of Virginia's founding in the context not just of English politics of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries but in the political and religious turmoil that was Europe in the same period.
He bases his history on published sources and generally writes well. He shows how tenuous were the colony's early days and how controversial its establishment and progress. Sometimes his historical asides are rather swashbuckling: referring to 'Parliament rising up and executing ... Charles I' is historically untrue. There was no Parliament in 1649 for the Lords had been abolished and the Commons' chamber taken over by a rebellious minority. (R.G.C.)
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