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The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624

Mancall, Peter C., Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

2018,2007,2012

Overview

In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the mosaic of regions and influences that formed the context and impetus for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. The volume reflects an understanding of Jamestown not as the birthplace of democracy in America but as the creation of a European outpost in a neighborhood that included Africans, Native Americans, and other Europeans. With contributions from both prominent and rising scholars, this volume offers far-ranging and compelling studies of peoples, texts, places, and conditions that influenced the making of New World societies. As Jamestown marks its four-hundredth anniversary, this collection provides provocative material for teaching and launching new research. Contributors: Philip P. Boucher, University of Alabama, Huntsville Peter Cook, Nipissing University J. H. Elliott, University of Oxford Andrew Fitzmaurice, University of Sydney Joseph Hall, Bates College Linda Heywood, Boston University James Horn, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation E. Ann McDougall, University of Alberta Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University David Northrup, Boston College Marcy Norton, The George Washington University James D. Rice, State University of New York, Plattsburgh Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania David Harris Sacks, Reed College Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University David S. Shields, University of South Carolina Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison John Thornton, Boston University

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press,Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,The University of North Carolina Press,Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,Omohundro Institute and University of North Caroli,University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: 16th century / 17th century / Acculturation / Acculturation -- America -- History -- Congresses / America / America -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses / America -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses / America -- History -- To 1810 -- Congresses / American Studies / Colonial Period (1600-1775) / Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775 / Colonies / Congresses / Ethnic relations / Europe / Europe -- Colonies -- America -- History -- Congresses / Great Britain / Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses / Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses / HISTORY / Latin American Studies / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) / State & Local / To 1810 / United States / Virginia / Virginia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses / Virginia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses / Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Congresses
• ISBN: 080783159X, 9780807831595, 080785848X, 9780807858486