Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
ISBN: 9780809077380 | 0809077388
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Pub. Date: 9/7/2005
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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, a... MORE
| Map | viii | ||
| Preface | ix | ||
| ONE Amonute's People | 3 | (22) | |
| TWO What the English Knew | 25 | (19) | |
| THREE First Contact | 44 | (22) | |
| FOUR Jamestown | ... MORE | 66 | (19) |
| FIVE Kidnapped | 85 | (22) | |
| SIX Imprisonment | 107 | (17) | |
| SEVEN Pocahontas and John | 124 | (11) | |
| EIGHT In London Town | 135 | (24) | |
| NINE 1622, and Queen Cockacoeske | 159 | (20) | |
| Notes | 179 | (32) | |
| Bibliographical Essay | 211 | (4) | |
| Acknowledgments | 215 | (2) | |
| Index | 217 |
Camilla Townsend lives in Hamilton, New York, and is an associate professor of history at Colgate University. She is the author of Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America.
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