The Jamestown project / / Karen Ordahl Kupperman
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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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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