| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. By April Lee Hatfield. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 312 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3757-9.)
April Lee Hatfield's Atlantic Virginia is a solid addition to an important trend in the study of early America. Hatfield offers "a broad picture of the Atlantic world in which Virginia developed" in order to demonstrate "that seventeenth-century colonies can be fully understood only within their entire Atlantic ... context" (p. 2). She joins an increasing number of scholars who acknowledge the imperative of examining colonies as part of an interdependent Atlantic world that featured a remarkable movement of goods, people, and ideas connecting the North American mainland with western Europe, the Caribbean, South America, and West Africa.	1
Drawing upon an impressive range of primary and secondary sources, Hatfield explains the importance of intercolonial trade to Virginia as well as its transatlantic connections through English and Dutch traders. Within that discussion, she persuasively demonstrates that there was more than one Virginia economy. While tobacco cultivation and trade with England characterized the economies of the counties between the Rappahannock and the James rivers, planters elsewhere, including those on the Eastern Shore, depended largely upon a provisions trade with other colonies.	. . .

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