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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

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內容簡介 Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, 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 British but to ourselves. Neither na ve 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 here 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. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.

作者介紹

作者介紹 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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最佳賣點 : In this stunning new biography, Pocahontas emerges for the first time in three complex dimensions--as a young child, as an influential princess visiting Jamestown, and as an English gentlewoman in London--allowing readers to see and sympathize with her and her people people as never before.

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