Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
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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 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.Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0809077388
ISBN13:9780809077380
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:Hill & Wang
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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Fabulous History Book
Published by JC , 9 months ago
I started to read the book in bed and felt disappointed with the 1st chapter. But then, Pocahantas came on the scene and I became riveted. I could not put the book down. I was up the night in order to get to the end.
CTownsend did a superb job at bringing this little girl to life. Excellent research, careful interpretations and indubious outcomes. - all backed with solid time frames and the cast of characters involved in and around her life.
The best book on Pocahantas I have ever read.
A winner.
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