title: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
author: Rhys Isaac
description: One of the best--and most provocative--books written on colonial Anglo-America over the past decade.
zlib_text: # VIRGINIA UNDER CHARLES I  
  AND CROMWELL, 1625-1660
  
  ## By
  
  ##  Wilcomb E. Washburn  
  Research Associate, Institute  
  of Early American History and Culture  
  and  
  Instructor in History,  
  College of William and Mary
  
  ###  Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation  
  Williamsburg, Virginia  
  1957
  
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  ### COPYRIGHT©, 1957 BY  
  VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION  
  CORPORATION, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA
  
  ### Jamestown 350th Anniversary  
  Historical Booklet, Number 7
  
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  ## Virginia Under Charles I and Cromwell,  
  1625-1660
  
  Virginia on the Eve of Expansion
  
  W oodrow Wilson named the first volume of his _History of the United States_
  "The Swarming of the English." We might go further and compare the
  colonization and expansion in the New World to a fissioning process in which
  individual atoms are torn loose from a former pattern of coherence and fused
  into new and strange patterns. The United States, indeed, is still in the
  process of fusion following the earlier fission p