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Powhatan's world and Colonial Virginia : a conflict of cultures

Author: Frederic W Gleach
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997.
Series: Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Drawing on the latest anthropological studies of colonial encounters, Frederic Gleach offers a more balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony than has been seen before. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan.
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Frederic W Gleach
ISBN: 0803221665 9780803221666
OCLC Number: 35086226
Notes: "In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington."
Description: ix, 241 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The Native Context --
2. The English Colonial Context --
3. Prolegomena --
4. The Birth of Virginia in Tsenacommacah --
5. Virginia before the 1622 Coup --
6. "The Great Massacre of 1622" --
7. Virginia between the Coups --
8. The Coup of 1644 and Its Aftermath --
9. A Survey of Virginia Indian Relations after 1646.
Series Title: Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
Other Titles: Powhatan's world & Colonial Virginia
Responsibility: Frederic W. Gleach.
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Abstract:

Drawing on the latest anthropological studies of colonial encounters, Frederic Gleach offers a more balanced and complete accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony than has been seen before. When English colonists established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607, they confronted a powerful and growing native chiefdom consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount chief, Powhatan. For the next half century, a portion of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged and often violent meeting ground between two very different worlds.

Gleach argues that the history of Jamestown is essentially the story of how two cultures civilize and incorporate each other. He examines historical events from both native and colonial perspectives, resulting in original, fuller interpretations of seventeenth-century Virginia history.

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