This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony\'s first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible.
Cave is professor emeritus of history at the University of Toledo and the author of numerous books, including The Pequot War and Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America (Nebraska, 2006)..
About author(s): Alfred A.
Cave is professor emeritus of history at the University of Toledo and the author of numerous books, including The Pequot War and Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America (Nebraska, 2006).
Alfred A.
Cave examines why the Anglo settlers were unable to establish a peaceful and productive relationship with the region\'s native inhabitants and explains how the deep prejudices harbored by both whites and Indians, the incompatibility of their economic and social systems, and the leadership failures of protagonists such as John Smith, Powhatan, Opechancanough, and William Berkeley contributed to this breakdown.
In Lethal Encounters, Alfred A.
This compelling study of Colonial Virginia, based on the latest research, sheds new light on the tensions between the English and the American Indians and clarifies the facts about several storied relationships.
Not surprisingly, the historical accounts of these events have often contained inaccuracies.
Britain\'s first successful settlements in America occurred more than four hundred years ago.
The peace and goodwill did not last; within one hundred years of the English settlers\' arrival in Virginia, the Indian population had been reduced by more than 90 percent through warfare, disease, and indiscriminate extermination.
While the romanticized story of the Jamestown colony has been retold many times, the events following the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are less well known.
This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony\'s first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible
