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Autore |
Kupperman Karen Ordahl <1939-> |
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Titolo |
The Jamestown project [[electronic resource] /] / Karen Ordahl Kupperman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Belknap, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-674-02702-7 |
0-674-03982-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p. ) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Frontier and pioneer life - Virginia - Jamestown |
Colonists - Virginia - Jamestown |
Indians of North America - Virginia - Jamestown |
Jamestown (Va.) Biography |
Jamestown (Va.) History 17th century |
Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
Virginia Relations Great Britain |
Great Britain Relations Virginia |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-369) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, Karen Kupperman shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. |
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