Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma - Rilegato

Townsend, Camilla

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0809095300 ISBN 13: 9780809095308

Casa editrice: Hill & Wang Pub, 2004

Riassunto

Camilla Townsend's stunning new book differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves.

Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name.

Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Camilla Townsend lives in Hamilton, New York, and is an associate professor of history at Colgate University. She is the author of Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America.

Product Description:

Book by Townsend Camilla

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hill & Wang Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0809095300
• ISBN 13: 9780809095308
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 223