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The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624 / edited by Peter C. Mancall.

Other author/creatorMancall, Peter C.
Other author/creatorOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Descriptionvi, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Supplemental Content Book review (H-Net)
Subject(s)
Acculturation--America --History --Congresses.
Virginia--History --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --Congresses.
America--History --To 1810 --Congresses.
Great Britain--Colonies --America --History --16th century --Congresses.
Great Britain--Colonies --America --History --17th century --Congresses.
Europe--Colonies --America --History --Congresses.
Virginia--Ethnic relations --History --16th century --Congresses.
Virginia--Ethnic relations --History --17th century --Congresses.
America--Ethnic relations --History --16th century --Congresses.
America--Ethnic relations --History --17th century --Congresses.
Contents Part One: Native American Settings -- Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World / Daniel K. Richter -- Between Old World and New: Oconee Valley Residents and the Spanish Southeast, 1540-1621 / Joseph Hall -- Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace / James D. Rice -- Part Two: Africa and the Atlantic -- The Caravel and the Caravan: Reconsidering Received Wisdom in the Sixteenth-Century Sahara / E. Ann McDougall -- The Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic World / David Northrup -- Central African Leadership and the Appropriation of European Culture / Linda Heywood and John Thornton -- African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic / James H. Sweet -- Part Three: European Models -- The Multinational Commodification of Tobacco, 1492-1650: An Iberian Perspective / Marcy Norton and Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert -- Revisioning the "French Atlantic": or, How to Think about the French Presence in the Atlantic, 1550-1625 / Philip P. Boucher -- Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Cultures in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries / Peter Cook -- Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean / Philip D. Morgan -- Part Four: Intellectual Currents Moral Uncertainty in the Dispossession of Native Americans / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- Discourses of Western Planting: Richard Hakluyt and the Making of the Atlantic World / David Harris Sacks -- Reading Ralegh's America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic World / Benjamin Schmidt -- The Genius of Ancient Britain / David S. Shields -- Part Five: The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 Imperfect Understandings: Rumor, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Early Virginia / James Horn -- The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia / J. H. Elliott -- Virginia and the Atlantic World / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Conference Program.
General noteEssays from an international conference entitled The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624, held in Williamsburg, Va., Mar. 4-7, 2004.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2007
LCCN 2007000103
ISBN9780807831595 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080783159X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807858486 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN080785848X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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