Jamestown Project

Informationen zum Autor Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History at New York University. Klappentext Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads! plays! and paintings; the stark reality of Jamestown! through the words of its inhabitants; and with archeological and environmental evidence! Kupperman re-creates Jamestown's formative years with astonishing detail. Zusammenfassung Despite the settlers’ dependence on the Algonquians and strained relations with London backers, they forged a colony that survived where others had failed. Reconfiguring the myth of Jamestown’s failure, Kupperman shows how the settlement’s first decade represented a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Creation Myths 1. Elizabethan England Engages the World 2. Adventurers! Opportunities! and Improvisation 3. Indian Experience of the Atlantic 4. English Hunger for the New 5. Grasping America's Contours 6. A Welter of Colonial Projects 7. Jamestown's Uncertain Beginnings 8. The Project Revised 9. James Cittie in Virginia Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Kupperman Karen Ordahl
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2008
• EAN: 9780674030565
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03056-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of the Americas, The Americas