The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 / Edition 1

by Peter C. Mancall

Overview

Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807858486
Publisher:	Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	09/03/2007
Edition description:	1
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Peter C. Mancall is professor of history and anthropology at the University of Southern California and director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is author of Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America and editor of Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology.

Table of Contents

Preface     V
Introduction   Peter C. Mancall     1
Native American Settings
Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World   Daniel K. Richter     29
Between Old World and New: Oconee Valley Residents and the Spanish Southeast, 1540-1621   Joseph Hall     66
Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace   James D. Rice     97
Africa and the Atlantic
The Caravel and the Caravan: Reconsidering Received Wisdom in the Sixteenth-Century Sahara   E. Ann McDougall     143
The Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic World   David Northrup     170
Central African Leadership and the Appropriation of European Culture   Linda Heywood   John Thornton     194
African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic   James H. Sweet     225
European Models
The Multinational Commodification of Tobacco, 1492-1650: An Iberian Perspective   Marcy Norton   Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert     251
Revisioning the "French Atlantic": or, How to Think about the French Presence in the Atlantic, 1550-1625   Philip P. Boucher     274
Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Cultures in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries   Peter Cook     307
Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean   Philip D. Morgan     342
Intellectual Currents
Moral Uncertainty in the Dispossession of Native Americans   Andrew Fitzmaurice     383
Discourses of Western Planting: Richard Hakluyt and the Making of the Atlantic World   David Harris Sacks     410
Reading Ralegh's America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic World   Benjamin Schmidt     454
The Genius of Ancient Britain   David S. Shields     489
The Atlantic World and Virginia, 155O-1624
Imperfect Understandings: Rumor, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Early Virginia   James Horn     513
The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia   J. H. Elliott     541
Virginia and the Atlantic World   Stuart B. Schwartz     558
Conference Program     571
Index     575
Notes on the Contributors     595

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Exploring far-flung places linked by trade, migration, and imagination, this extraordinary collection investigates the origins not only of Virginia but also of our global community today.—Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia

This volume's creative vision of our colonial origins places Jamestown's establishment in 1607 in its rich, often surprising pan-Atlantic context. . . . It sets the standard for reflecting, four hundred years later, on the human diversity and contingency of what turned out, after all, to have been a foundational moment in a history of a nation no less diverse or complex.—Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia

These essays rightfully foreground actors often forgotten in our patriotic celebrations: Native American power brokers; Saharan, Benin, and Kongolese traders and rulers; Caribbean planters; and Spanish, Portuguese, and French lay and clerical imperial agents. They ought to be considered as central to the history of early colonial Virginia as Walter Ralegh and Captain John Smith.—Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin

Editorial Reviews

Studded with sparkling essays, some of which should become required reading.—Journal of Southern History

Superb.—H-Net

From the Publisher