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Plain paths and dividing lines : navigating native land and water in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Jessica Lauren Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Jessica (Jessica Lauren), author.
- Series:
- Early American histories.
- Early American histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--17th century.
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Boundaries.
- Boundaries.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Jessica Taylor traces the ways in which English colonizers grafted their ways of ordering space atop Powhatan-ordered space in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake. As she argues, Natives and newcomers found landscapes mutually understandable, and this manuscript follows English and Algonquian attempts, from the quotidian to state-level initiatives, to capitalize on mobility along paths and rivers, and police legal and physical boundaries. This manuscript focuses on landscape and uses material culture and archaeology sources throughout, thus taking an interdisciplinary approach to recover everyday colonial experience and render earliest contact between Indigenous nations and English settlers in what became Virginia and Maryland in an entirely new light"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : connections and borders in the Chesapeake
- The moving people and places of the Powhatan Chiefdom
- Watching carefully in the Bay, 1607-14
- New borders, new connections, new fractures, 1615-44
- Sailors and rumors in the bay, 1622-44
- Trade, property, and the meaning of Algonquian places, 1650-60
- Neighbors, local authority, and local violence, 1660-66
- Rebelling by the bay, 1670-80
- Epilogue : native history at dividing lines.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Taylor, Jessica Lauren Plain Paths and Dividing Lines
- ISBN:
- 9780813949369
- 081394936X
- OCLC:
- 1382696432
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