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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
- The American Portraits Series
Engelsk
Bogcover for Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma af Camilla Townsend, 9780809077380
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780809077380
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0809077388
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2005
Størrelse i cm:
13,8 x 21,0 x 1,9
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2005
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

- The American Portraits Series
Engelsk
Paperback 2005
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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 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 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.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780809077380
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0809077388
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2005
Størrelse i cm:
13,8 x 21,0 x 1,9
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2005
Forfatter(e):
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