Plain Paths and Dividing Lines : Navigating Native Land and Water in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake /

"Jessica Taylor traces the ways in which English colonizers grafted their ways of ordering space atop Powhatan-ordered space in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake. As she argues, Natives and newcomers found landscapes mutually understandable, and this manuscript follows English and Algonquian a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Taylor, Jessica (Jessica Lauren) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Boundaries.
United States > Chesapeake Bay Region.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Boundaries.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History > 17th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : connections and borders in the Chesapeake
  • The moving people and places of the Powhatan Chiefdom
  • Watching carefully in the Bay, 1607-14
  • New borders, new connections, new fractures, 1615-44
  • Sailors and rumors in the bay, 1622-44
  • Trade, property, and the meaning of Algonquian places, 1650-60
  • Neighbors, local authority, and local violence, 1660-66
  • Rebelling by the bay, 1670-80
  • Epilogue : native history at dividing lines.

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