Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion

Contributors

Contributors Douglas Bradburn is associate professor of history at Binghamton University , State University of New York. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on various aspects of early American and British imperial history, including a critique of the economic and social history of the late-seventeenth-century Chesapeake, the role of warfare in British state formation, the causes of the American Revolution, the opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the problem of citizenship, immigration, and ethnicity in the era of the American Revolution. He has received numerous grants and fellowships including the Gilder Lehrman Research Fellowship from the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, given to support the completion of his book, The Citizenship Revolution: Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774–1804 (2009). He has recently been recognized with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010). John C. Coombs is Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College. His research focuses on the economy, society, and politics of the early Chesapeake, particularly Virginia. His first book, The Rise of Virginia Slavery (forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press), offers a major reassessment of the timing and character of the colony’s conversion from servant to slave labor and the role that pivotal transition played in the emergence of a dominant class of gentry planters and the formation of African American society. 334 / Contributors Victor Enthoven is Associate Professor of History at the Netherlands Defense Academy and the Royal Netherlands Naval College, and he is a Senior Research Fellow at the Free University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Dutch Atlantic Connections project. He has also worked for the University of Leiden’s Institute of European Expansion and the Institute for Dutch History in The Hague. His project on Dutch Atlantic trade and shipping, in conjunction with Johannes M. Postma of Mankato State University , resulted in the edited volume Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585–1817 (2003), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice: Reviews for Academic Libraries . Since 2004, he has regularly participated in Harvard University’s International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. He is currently completing a book on Dutch entrepreneurs active in the eighteenth-century Atlantic. Alexander B. Haskell is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California Riverside. He received his Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University in 2005 and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in 2005–7. He has explored the relationship between rhetoric and political culture in eighteenth-century Virginia in “Defining the Right Side of Virtue: Crowd Narratives, the Newspaper, and the LeeMercer Dispute in Rhetorical Perspective,” in Early American Studies, special issue, “The Atlantic World of Print in the Age of Franklin” (Winter 2010). He is currently completing a book-length study on rhetoric and commonwealth formation in the Virginia colony from the Tudor era forward. Wim Klooster is Associate Professor of History at Clark University, where he has taught since 2003. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, an Alexander Vietor Memorial Fellow, and an Inter-Americas Mellon Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library; a Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University; and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Atlantic History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. For the last ten years, he has been coeditor of Brill’s Atlantic World book series. Klooster is the author of numerous articles and seven books, including Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009), Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648– 1795 (1998) and The Dutch in the Americas, 1600–1800 (1997), and coeditor, with Alfred Padula, of The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination (2005). Contributors / 335 Philip Levy is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Fellow Travelers: Indians and Europeans Contesting the Early American Trail (2007) as well as numerous articles on colonial Indian relations, historical archaeology, and Virginia history. He has won prizes, fellowships, and awards from the Virginia Historical Society, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities , the George Washington Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Geographic Society. His current work is a study of George Washington’s boyhood, the famous cherry tree story, and the Virginia landscapes of...