The Jamestown project / Karen Ordahl Kupperman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Relations.

Indians of North America.

Colonists.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Jamestown (Va.)--History--17th century.

Jamestown (Va.).

Frontier and pioneer life--Virginia--Jamestown.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Virginia.

Colonists--Virginia--Jamestown--Biography.

Indians of North America--Virginia--Jamestown--Biography.

Jamestown (Va.)--Biography.

Virginia--Relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Relations--Virginia.

Great Britain.

Jamestown (Va.)--History--17th century--Sources.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.

Virginia--Jamestown.

Genre:

Sources.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads, plays, and paintings; the stark reality of Jamestown, through the words of its inhabitants; and with archeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates Jamestown's formative years with astonishing detail.

Contents:

Introduction: Creation Myths 1

1 Elizabethan England Engages the World 12

2 Adventurers, Opportunities, and Improvisation 43

3 Indian Experience of the Atlantic 73

4 English Hunger for the New 109

5 Grasping America's Contours 145

6 A Welter of Colonial Projects 183

7 Jamestown's Uncertain Beginnings 210

8 The Project Revised 241

9 James Cittie in Virginia 278.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0674024745

9780674024748

OCLC:

77572674