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The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624 / edited by Peter C. Mancall.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acculturation--America--History--Congresses.
- Acculturation.
- 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.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (609 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: NATIVE AMERICAN SETTINGS; Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World; Between Old World and New: Oconee Valley Residents and the Spanish Southeast, 1540-1621; Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace; PART TWO: AFRICA AND THE ATLANTIC; The Caravel and the Caravan: Reconsidering Received Wisdom in the Sixteenth-Century Sahara; The Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic World; Central African Leadership and the Appropriation of European Culture; African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic
- PART THREE: EUROPEAN MODELSThe Multinational Commodification of Tobacco, 1492-1650: An Iberian Perspective; Revisioning the ''French Atlantic'': or, How to Think about the French Presence in the Atlantic, 1550-1625; Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Cultures in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries; Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean; PART FOUR: INTELLECTUAL CURRENTS; Moral Uncertainty in the Dispossession of Native Americans; Discourses of Western Planting: Richard Hakluyt and the Making of the Atlantic World
- Reading Ralegh's America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic WorldThe Genius of Ancient Britain; PART FIVE: THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND VIRGINIA, 1550-1624; Imperfect Understandings: Rumor, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Early Virginia; The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia; Virginia and the Atlantic World; Conference Program; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Notes on the Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908816-1-8
- 1-4696-0091-9
- OCLC:
- 966859655
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