Creating industry was of utmost importance, allowing the colonies to be financially self-sufficient. In the first years of contact between Europeans and Native Americans, tobacco formed a valuable ...

Before coming to UW, she taught at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Dr. Morris’s current book project, “Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Upstart Empires, 1580-1660,” considers how ...

She applies her economics training to her studies of colonial time periods. After a few years of lecturing part time in the New York area, Main joined the faculty at University of Colorado Boulder. As ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... driving agricultural economies based on tobacco in Virginia and Maryland and on rice along the coasts ...