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Record Nr.

UNISA996248349403316

Autore

Kupperman Karen Ordahl <1939->

Titolo

The Jamestown project / / Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Belknap, 2008

ISBN

0-674-02702-7

0-674-03982-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

973.21

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-369) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.