For a better understanding of the history of Virginia and North Carolina as well as an appreciation of how the British culture affected the total history of this nation, I highly recommend the book,"Albion's Seed" by Dr. David Hackett Fischer. It actually contains 4 volumes in one with the 4 separate settlements in America. The divisions are: 1. the Puritan settlement;2. the establishment of a colony in Virginia ;3. the Friends (Quaker) migration and 4, the Scots-Irish movement to America.( a great section)The work is a scholarly accomplishment. Also, numbers of genealogies of prominent settlers are included. I am a graduate of Baylor University, one of my majors was history, and I can say with confidence that when the reader completes this book, studies it well, he or she will have earned a credit course in history from any college anywhere. In cloth cover it will sell for about $40.00, but my paper back edition is well stitched or glued and is in excellent shape with a price of nearly half the cloth cover. The book was published in 1991 so you might find a sale price someplace. You might try Amazon.com on the internet. It is published by Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave. N.Y.,N.Y. MBush