Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series by Townsend, Camilla

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas...
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Author: Camilla Townsend
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series by Townsend, Camilla

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

$29.29

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

$29.29
Author: Camilla Townsend
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.54w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780809077380

About the Author

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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