| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
xi, 223 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
An American portrait |
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American portrait (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Amonute's people -- What the English knew -- First contact -- Jamestown -- Kidnapped -- Imprisonment -- Pocahontas and John -- In London town -- 1622 and Queen Cockacoeske. |
| Summary |
"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. |
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Neither naïve 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, deception: Pocahontas's life is shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name."--pub. desc. |
| Subject |
Pocahontas, -1617.
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Rolfe, John, 1585-1622.
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Pocahontas, -1617 (OCoLC)fst01841745
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Rolfe, John, 1585-1622 (OCoLC)fst00453424
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Pocahontas.
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Pocahontas ca. um 1595-1617 (DE-588)119006456
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Powhatan women -- Biography.
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Powhatan Indians -- History.
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Powhatan Indians -- Government relations.
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Powhatan Indians. (OCoLC)fst01074484
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Powhatan Indians -- Government relations.
(OCoLC)fst01074485
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Powhatan women. (OCoLC)fst01074490
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0809077388 |
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9780809077380 |
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