Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Jamestown Project, Development Concept Plan
Author: Annual Report
Author: United States. National Park Service. Water Resources DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Jamestown Project
Author: Karen Ordahl KuppermanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674027027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl Kupperman Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, escaped, and returned to England in time to join the Virginia Company's colonizing project. In Jamestown migrants, merchants, and soldiers who had also sailed to the distant shores of the Ottoman Empire, Africa, and Ireland in search of new beginnings encountered Indians who already possessed broad understanding of Europeans. Experience of foreign environments and cultures had sharpened survival instincts on all sides and aroused challenging questions about human nature and its potential for transformation. It is against this enlarged temporal and geographic background that Jamestown dramatically emerges in Karen Kupperman's breathtaking study. Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, she 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. Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads, plays, and paintings, and the stark reality of Jamestown--for Indians and Europeans alike--through the words of its inhabitants as well as archeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates these formative years with astonishing detail.
Green Spring Colonial National Historical Park, James City County, General Management Plan Amendment
Author: Federal Register
Author: Federal Register Index
Author: The Virginia Engineer
Author: United States Code Congressional and Administrative News
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
Book Description
Contains laws, legislative history, administrative regulations, lists of committees, proclamations, executive messages and orders.
1619
Author: James HornPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541698800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in colonial Virginia. Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly -- the first gathering of a representative governing body in America -- came together. A few weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light on the year that gave birth to the great paradox of our nation: slavery in the midst of freedom. This portentous year marked both the origin of the most important political development in American history, the rise of democracy, and the emergence of what would in time become one of the nation's greatest challenges: the corrosive legacy of racial inequality that has afflicted America since its beginning.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description