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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460611103321

Titolo

The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624 / / edited by Peter C. Mancall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4696-0091-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (609 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

975.5/02

Soggetti

Acculturation - America - History

Electronic books.

Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Congresses

America History To 1810 Congresses

Great Britain Colonies America History 16th century Congresses

Great Britain Colonies America History 17th century Congresses

Europe Colonies America History Congresses

Virginia Ethnic relations History 16th century Congresses

Virginia Ethnic relations History 17th century Congresses

America Ethnic relations History 16th century Congresses

America Ethnic relations History 17th century Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: NATIVE AMERICAN SETTINGS; Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World; Between Old World and New: Oconee Valley Residents and the Spanish Southeast, 1540-1621; Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace; PART TWO: AFRICA AND THE ATLANTIC; The Caravel and the Caravan: Reconsidering Received Wisdom in the Sixteenth-Century Sahara; The Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic World; Central African Leadership and the Appropriation of European Culture; African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic



PART THREE: EUROPEAN MODELSThe Multinational Commodification of Tobacco, 1492-1650: An Iberian Perspective; Revisioning the ''French Atlantic'': or, How to Think about the French Presence in the Atlantic, 1550-1625; Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Cultures in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries; Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean; PART FOUR: INTELLECTUAL CURRENTS; Moral Uncertainty in the Dispossession of Native Americans; Discourses of Western Planting: Richard Hakluyt and the Making of the Atlantic World

Reading Ralegh's America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic WorldThe Genius of Ancient Britain; PART FIVE: THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND VIRGINIA, 1550-1624; Imperfect Understandings: Rumor, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Early Virginia; The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia; Virginia and the Atlantic World; Conference Program; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Notes on the Contributors