The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550 - 1624: essays from an International Conference Entitled …
by Mancall, Peter C., Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, International Conference Entitled The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550 - 1624, Williamsburg, Va, International Conference Entitled The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550 - 1624, Williamsburg, Va
The Atlantic world and Virginia, 1550-1624
"The 18 essays in this volume provide a fresh perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. The collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribb…
Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multi-racial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward e…
"Is a plural, polyethnic, democratic society possible? Starting with Ernest Gellner's observation that 'culturally plural societies worked well in the past', but 'genuine cultural pluralism ceases to be viable under current conditions', this study explores pluralism in three set…
