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Autore: |
Kupperman Karen Ordahl <1939->
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Titolo: |
The Jamestown project / / Karen Ordahl Kupperman
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Belknap, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (392 p. ) : ill |
Disciplina: | 973.21 |
Soggetto topico: | Frontier and pioneer life - Virginia - Jamestown |
Colonists - Virginia - Jamestown | |
Indians of North America - Virginia - Jamestown | |
Soggetto geografico: | Jamestown (Va.) Biography |
Jamestown (Va.) History 17th century | |
Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | |
Virginia Relations Great Britain | |
Great Britain Relations Virginia | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Jamestown project ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-674-02702-7 |
0-674-03982-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996248349403316 |
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