THE JAMESTOWN PROJECT by Karen Ordahl Kupperman ( 9780674030565 )

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Title:

THE JAMESTOWN PROJECT

By:

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

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Paperback

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0674030567

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9780674030565

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Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 October, 2008

Pages:

392

Description:

Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, this book shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work.

Synopsis:

Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, Karen Kupperman shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. Despite the settlers' dependence on the Chesapeake Algonquians and strained relations with their London backers, they forged a tenacious colony that survived where others had failed. Indeed, the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth.

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41 halftones

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The Belknap Press

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