The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624
By: edited by Peter C. Mancall
Contributors: Mancall, Peter C; Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press; Univ of North Carolina Pr; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780807831595; 9780807858486
Subjects: Acculturation -- America -- History -- Congresses; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Congresses; America -- History -- To 1810 -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses; Europe -- Colonies -- 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
Genres: Congresses
Description: "The 18 essays in this volume provide a fresh perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. The 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."--Publisher's description.
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