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The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624 / edited by Peter C. Mancall.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic relations.
- History.
- Acculturation.
- Colonies.
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Congresses.
- Virginia.
- America--History--To 1810--Congresses.
- America.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--16th century--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century--Congresses.
- Europe--Colonies--America--History--Congresses.
- Europe.
- Acculturation--America--History--Congresses.
- Virginia--Ethnic relations--History--16th century--Congresses.
- Virginia--Ethnic relations--History--17th century--Congresses.
- America--Ethnic relations--History--16th century--Congresses.
- America--Ethnic relations--History--17th century--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the mosaic of regions and influences that formed the context and impetus for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. The volume reflects an understanding of Jamestown not as the birthplace of democracy in America but as the creation of a European outpost in a neighborhood that included Africans, Native Americans, and other Europeans.
- With contributions from both prominent and rising scholars, this volume offers far-ranging and compelling studies of peoples, texts, places, and conditions that influenced the making of New World societies. As Jamestown marks its four hundredth anniversary, this collection provides provocative material for teaching and launching new research.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Native American Settings
- Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World / Daniel K. Richter 99
- Between Old World and New: Oconee Valley Residents and the Spanish Southeast, 1540-1621 / Joseph Hall 66
- Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace / James D. Rice 97
- Part 2 Africa and the Atlantic
- The Caravel and the Caravan: Reconsidering Received Wisdom in the Sixteenth-Century Sahara / E. Ann McDougall 143
- The Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic World / David Northrup 170
- Central African Leadership and the Appropriation of European Culture / Linda Heywood, John Thornton 194
- African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic / James H. Sweet 325
- Part 3 European Models
- The Multinational Commodification of Tobacco, 1492-1650: An Iberian Perspective / Marcy Norton, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert 251
- Revisioning the "French Atlantic": or, How to Think about the French Presence in the Atlantic, 1550-1625 / Philip P. Boucher 274
- Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Cultures in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries / Peter Cook 307
- Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean / Philip D. Morgan 343
- Part 4 Intellectual Currents
- Moral Uncertainty in the Dispossession of Native Americans / Andrew Fitzmaurice 383
- Discourses of Western Planting: Richard Hakluyt and the Making of the Atlantic World / David Harris Sacks 410
- Reading Ralegh's America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic World / Benjamin Schmidt 454
- The Genius of Ancient Britain / David S. Shields 489
- Part 5 The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624
- Imperfect Understandings: Rumor, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Early Virginia / James Horn 513
- The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia / J. H. Elliott 541
- Virginia and the Atlantic World / Stuart B. Schwartz 558.
- Notes:
- Essays from an international conference entitled The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624, held in Williamsburg, Va., Mar. 4-7, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807831595
- 080783159X
- 9780807858486
- 080785848X
- OCLC:
- 79001335
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