Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series - Paperback

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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series - Paperback

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series - Paperback

by Camilla Townsend
$19.00
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by Camilla Townsend (Author)

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 Biography

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."

Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.26 x 5.54 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2005
ISBN9780809077380
Author Camilla Townsend
PublisherHill & Wang
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2005
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Camilla Townsend is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of numerous books, including Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, and The Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive (OUP, 2016), which won multiple prizes, among them The Albert J. Beveridge Award awarded by the American Historical Association.

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