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The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655
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The dissolution of the ill-starred Virginia Company in 1624 left Virginia now England's first royal colony without a formal raison d'etre. Most historians have suggested that the nascent local societies were anarchic, under the thrall of violent and unscrupulous men.James Perry asserts the opposite: The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655 depicts emergent social cohesion. In a model of network analysis, Perry mines county court records to trace landholders…