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The best '::story of eighteenth-century Virginia is Richard L. Morton, Colonial
Virginia (i960), vol. 2, Westward Expansion and Prelude to Revolution, 1110-
1163 Robert E. and B. Katherine Brown's Virginia, 1150-1186: Democracy or
Aristocracy? (1964) is an absurd attempt to carry over their concept of "democracy"
from Massachusetts to Virginia. Far sounder is the brilliant work of
Charles S. Sydnor, Gentlemen freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's
Virginia (1952). James H. Soltow's "Scottish Traders in Virginia, 1750-1775,"
Economic History Review (August 1959), is a superb revisionist article that
lays to rest the myth that the Virginia planters were "exploited" by the London
merchants.
The major history of colonial North Carolina is still Robert D. W. Connor,
History of North Carolina (4 vols., 1919), vol. 1, Colonial and Revolutionary
Periods, 1584-1183. Also useful is Samuel A. Ashe, The History of North Carolina,
vol. 1 (1908). A more recent overall history of the colony is Hugh T. Lefler
and Albert R. Newsome, North Carolina: History of a Southern State (1954).
The classic history of South Carolina in the eighteenth century is Edward
McCrady, The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Government, 1119-
1116 (1899). The standard modern work is David D. Wallace, History of South
Carolina, vol. 1 (1934); the most recent is M. Eugene Sirmans, Colonial South
Carolina: A Political History, 1663-1163 (1966).
E. Merton Coulter, Georgia: A Short History (1947), is the standard, overall
history of the colony and state. The modern revisionist view of the founding of
Georgia began with Albert B. Saye, New Viewpoints in Georgia History (1943).
See also Verner W. Crane, "Dr. Thomas Bray and the Charitable Colony Project,
1730," William and Mary Quarterly (1962); and the excellent and hard-hitting
chapter on early Georgia in Daniel Boorstin, the Americans: The Colonial Experience
(1958).
The general history of England in this period is well discussed in J. H. Plumb,
England in the Eighteenth Century (1950); Dorothy Marshall, Eighteenth-Century
England (1962 ); John Carswell, From Revolution to Revolution: England
1688-1116 (1973); Arthur H. Buffinton, The Second Hundred Years War:
1689-1815 (1929); David Horn, Great Britain and Europe in the Eighteenth
Century (1967); and Basil Williams, The Whig Supremµcy, 1114-1160 (1962).
The economic and financial aspects of English history are treated in Peter M. G.
Dickson, The Financial Revolution in England, 1688-1156 (1967); and the
opposition movements in Archibald S. Foord, His Majesty's Opposition, 1714—
1830 (1964).
The importance of the Walpole era is highlighted in J. H. Plumb, Sir Robert
Walpole (2 vols., 1956-60); H. T. Dickinson, Walpole and the Whig Supremacy
(1973); and Norris A. Brisco, The Economic Policy of Robert Walpole
(1967).
The specific policies and the politics of Pelham and Newcastle are treated
in detail in John B. Owen, The Rise of the Pelhams (1957); John W. Wilkes,
A Whig in Power: The Political Career of Henry Pelham (1964); Roy A. Kelch,
Newcastle, A Duke Without Money: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1693-1168 (1974);
and Stanley N. Ka¾ Newcastle's New York: Anglo-American Politics, 1732-
1153 (1968). "Salutary neglect" is treated, although in a hostile fashion, in
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