Powhatan''s World and Colonial Virginia - A Conflict of Cultures

Informationen zum Autor Frederic W. Gleach is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. Klappentext Frederic W. Gleach offers the most balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony to date. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing Native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half-century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent meeting ground between two very different worlds. Zusammenfassung An account of the early years of the Jamestown colony.

Product details

• Authors: Frederic W Gleach, Frederic W. Gleach
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2000
• EAN: 9780803270916
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7091-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Studies in the Anthropology of; Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians; Studies in the Anthropology of
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries