Jamestown Project

Name: Jamestown Project
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ISBN: 9780674030565

ISBN-10: 0674030567

ISBN-13: 9780674030565

Edition: 2007

Authors: Karen Ordahl Kupperman

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.78" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Creation Myths



Elizabethan England Engages the World



Adventurers, Opportunities, and Improvisation



Indian Experience of the Atlantic



English Hunger for the New



Grasping America's Contours



A Welter of Colonial Projects



Jamestown's Uncertain Beginnings



The Project Revised



James Cittie in Virginia


Notes


Index