Lethal Encounters: Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia
Autor Alfred Caveen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2013
This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony’s first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible.
While the romanticized story of the Jamestown colony has been retold many times, the events following the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are less well known. The peace and goodwill did not last; within one hundred years of the English settlers’ arrival in Virginia, the Indian population had been reduced by more than 90 percent through warfare, disease, and indiscriminate extermination.
Britain’s first successful settlements in America occurred more than four hundred years ago. Not surprisingly, the historical accounts of these events have often contained inaccuracies. This compelling study of colonial Virginia, based on the latest research, sheds new light on the tensions between the English and the American Indians and clarifies the facts about several storied relationships.
In Lethal Encounters, Alfred A. Cave examines why the Anglo settlers were unable to establish a peaceful and productive relationship with the region’s native inhabitants and explains how the deep prejudices harbored by both whites and Indians, the incompatibility of their economic and social systems, and the leadership failures of protagonists such as John Smith, Powhatan, Opechancanough, and William Berkeley contributed to this breakdown.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803248342
ISBN-10: 0803248342
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 1 illustration
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0803248342
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 1 illustration
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Alfred A. Cave is professor emeritus of history at the University of Toledo and the author of numerous books, including The Pequot War and Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America (Nebraska, 2006).
Cuprins
Introduction
1. Prelude: Explorations, Encounters, and Abandoned Colonies
2. "Our Mortall Enemies": Early Encounters at Jamestown
3. "To Subdue the Wilde Salvages": Captain John Smith and the Powhatans
4. "A World of Miseries": The Virginia Colony, 1609-1614
5. "Upon Doubtful Terms": Virginia, 1616-1622
6. "A Plantation of Sorrows": Virginia, 1622-1635
7. Another War and a New Policy
8. Bacon's Rebellion and Its Aftermath
Conclusions
Notes
Index