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The captivating story of four young people-English and Powhatan-who lived their lives between cultures In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia's founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships-and became essential for the colony's survival. Their ...

The captivating story of four young people-English and Powhatan-who lived their lives between cultures In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia's founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often unwillingly, entered into cross-cultural relationships-and became essential for the colony's survival. Their ...

The Atlantic in World History tells the story of the emergence of an integrated Atlantic world after 1492 and the way lives in all four continents were transformed. Novel products, especially foods, made lives better, but intensive labor systems, especially slavery, ruined many lives. Plantation agriculture and intensified trade fed industrial processes and led to modern economic and political regimes.

The Atlantic in World History tells the story of the emergence of an integrated Atlantic world after 1492 and the way lives in all four continents were transformed. Novel products, especially foods, made lives better, but intensive labor systems, especially slavery, ruined many lives. Plantation agriculture and intensified trade fed industrial processes and led to modern economic and political regimes.

By offering substantive articles that analyze critical subjects and themes in the political, cultural, economic, and social history of the United States, this provides students and researchers with a handy, coherent, and simple-to-use reference for study and research purposes. This easy-to-comprehend reference set offers a unique, exciting, and accessible approach to American history.

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in American history. The collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY introduces readers to American colonial history and, in this third edition, presents a radically new vision of the subject in accordance with developments...

Examines the failure of Providence Island, set up by English puritans in 1630 and extinct by 1641.

This book of eleven essays from leading scholars in the fields of intellectual and cultural history reverses that trend by focusing on the ways in which contact with the Americas transformed European thought.

Captain John Smith was one of the most insightful and colourful writers to visit America in the colonial period. The publication of Philip Barbour's three-volume edition of Smith's works made available the complete Smith opus. In Karen Ordahl Kupperman's new edition her imaginative selection and thematic arrangement of Smith's most important writings will make Smith more widely accessible.

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In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. Ail parties in these dramas were uncertain -- hopeful and fearful -- about the opportunity and challenge presented by new realities. Indians and English both believed they could control the developing ...

In telling the tragic and heroic story of Roanoke, the lost colony, award-winning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman recovers the earliest days of English exploration and settlement in America the often forgotten years before Jamestown and the landing of the Mayflower. Roanoke explores Britain s attempt to establish a firm claim to North America in the hope that colonies would make England wealthy and powerful. Kupperman brings to life the men a...

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.

The often forgotten years between Columbus's voyages and the landing of the Mayflower. Writing from a background in both Indian and English history. Karen Ordahl Kupperman movingly describes the first English colony in America, bringing historical themes to life through fascinating portraits of individuals who lived the drama of the lost colony.