The Jamestown fiasco
Life & Death
Q. What was happening there, & why did they keep coming?
1. disease
Chosen spot
2. abandonment
3. Indian troubles
4. starvation
Who went?
What for?
Work regimen?
Tale of lazy Indians
5. why a colony?
A century of colonization
Why England?
Purposes of colonies
The imperiatives of mercantilism
Zero sum
Gold and silver
Wealth & power
Mercantilism & capitalism
The trouble with free markets
National rivalries: Jamestown & St. Augustine
6. lack of usable models
Traditional models: Greek & Roman
Ireland
Spanish America
7. tobacco boom
Tobacco & mercantilism
James I & tobacco
Tobacco & labor markets
The Dutch model
Jamestown: The First American Boom Town
Jamestown, Part II
1. Culture of risk
2. Mercantilism & economy
Zero-sum game
Wealth neither created nor destroyed
A competitive wealth of nations
3. Boom town
Land labor
Indentured servitude
Culture of unfreedom
Masters & power
4. Lack of usable colonial models
Greek & Roman
Spanish & Dutch
5. The demography of the Chesapeake
Mortality & life expectancy
Reproduction
Population growth
The peculiarities of English colonization
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