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Karen Ordahl Kupperman - Indians and English - 9780801482823 - V9780801482823
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Indians and English

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Description for Indians and English Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 33. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.

In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain—hopeful and fearful—about the opportunity and challenge presented by new realities. Indians and English both believed they could control the developing relationship. Each group was curious about the other, and interpreted through their own standards and traditions. At the same time both came from societies in the process of unsettling change and hoped to derive important lessons by studying a profoundly different culture.These meetings and early relationships are recorded in a wide variety of sources. Native people maintained oral traditions about the encounters, and these were written down by English recorders at the time of contact and since; many are maintained to this day. English venturers, desperate to make readers at home understand how difficult and potentially rewarding their enterprise was, wrote constantly of their own experiences and observations and transmitted native lore. Kupperman analyzes all these sources in order to understand the true nature of these early years, when English venturers were so fearful and dependent on native aid and the shape of the future was uncertain.Building on the research in her highly regarded book Settling with the Indians, Kupperman argues convincingly that we must see both Indians and English as active participants in this unfolding drama.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801482823
SKU
V9780801482823
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About Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of, Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony, winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association for the best book in American history, and America in European Consciousness 1493-1750.

Reviews for Indians and English
... this exceedingly well-argued and well-presented work, with many interdisciplinary insights, will be an essential addition to major public libraries and academic libraries interested in maintaining research collections on cultural encounters.
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