Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma The American Portraits Series

Name: Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma The American Portraits Series
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ISBN: 9780809077380

ISBN-10: 0809077388

ISBN-13: 9780809077380

Edition: N/A

Authors: Camilla Townsend

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Camilla Townsend's stunning book differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth-century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world--not only to the invading English but to ourselves. Neither naive nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration,…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.20" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Map


Preface



Amonute's People



What the English Knew



First Contact



Jamestown



Kidnapped



Imprisonment



Pocahontas and John



In London Town



1622, and Queen Cockacoeske


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Acknowledgments