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Sto caricando le informazioni... Pocahontas and the Powhatan dilemma (edizione 2005)di Camilla Townsend
Informazioni sull'operaPocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series di Camilla Townsend
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is an interesting factual look at a story many of us has come to know through fictional accounts. Pocahontas did marry John Rolfe, but probably did not convert to Christianity or visit England out of love for the English. More likely, she was engaged in acts of preservation for herself and her people. It is unfortunate that more information about her is available, but this book provides insight into her life not as a symbol, but as a real person. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Camilla Townsend's new book 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 English, but also to ourselves." "Neither naive 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 shown here as a road map of Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope of 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."--Jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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