The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624edited by Peter C. Mancall.

The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624edited by Peter C. Mancall. - Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (vi, 596 pages) : illustrations, maps - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .

Essays from an international conference entitled The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624, held in Williamsburg, Va., Mar. 4-7, 2004.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part One: Native American Settings -- Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World / Between Old World and New: Oconee Valley Residents and the Spanish Southeast, 1540-1621 / Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace / Part Two: Africa and the Atlantic -- The Caravel and the Caravan: Reconsidering Received Wisdom in the Sixteenth-Century Sahara / The Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic World / Central African Leadership and the Appropriation of European Culture / African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic / Part Three: European Models -- The Multinational Commodification of Tobacco, 1492-1650: An Iberian Perspective / Revisioning the "French Atlantic": or, How to Think about the French Presence in the Atlantic, 1550-1625 / Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Cultures in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries / Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean / Part Four: Intellectual Currents Moral Uncertainty in the Dispossession of Native Americans / Discourses of Western Planting: Richard Hakluyt and the Making of the Atlantic World / Reading Ralegh's America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic World / The Genius of Ancient Britain / Part Five: The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 Imperfect Understandings: Rumor, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Early Virginia / The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia / Virginia and the Atlantic World / Conference Program. Daniel K. Richter -- Joseph Hall -- James D. Rice -- E. Ann McDougall -- David Northrup -- Linda Heywood and John Thornton -- James H. Sweet -- Marcy Norton and Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert -- Philip P. Boucher -- Peter Cook -- Philip D. Morgan -- Andrew Fitzmaurice -- David Harris Sacks -- Benjamin Schmidt -- David S. Shields -- James Horn -- J.H. Elliott -- Stuart B. Schwartz --




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