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(3.9) | 3 | On the eve of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony, this authoritative history argues that Jamestown-not Plymouth-was the true birthplace of the American experience |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Reveal to us the courts of China and the unknown straits which still lie hid: throw back the portals which have been closed since the world's beginning at the dawn of time. There yet remain for you new lands, ample realms, unknown peoples; they wait yet, I say, to be discovered. -- Richard Hakluyt the younger, 1587 | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Long before Jamestown, in the summer of 1561, a Spanish caravel buffeted by storms somewhere off the coast of present day South Carolina was driven several hundred miles to the north. | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. At Jamestown, the peoples of America, Europe and Africa first encountered one another, lived and worked alongside each other, traded with and fought one another, survived and persisted, and in so doing began the long process -- often contentious, sometimes tragic, but ultimately successful -- by which together they shaped a new world and forged a new people. (Zum Anzeigen anklicken. Warnung: Enthält möglicherweise Spoiler.) | |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf Englisch (5)▾Buchbeschreibungen On the eve of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony, this authoritative history argues that Jamestown-not Plymouth-was the true birthplace of the American experience ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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Yup.
And so I leaped headfirst into James Horn's A Land as God Made it and kicked ignorance's ass. I now know so much about the infamous colony. The story of James Smith and Pocahontas was not what I thought it was. At all. And the horrendous "Starving Time" that occurred in the colony pushed the colonists into cannibalism! Aside from fleeting moments of peace between the English and the Powhatan Indians, there was constant war. The "Indian Massacre of 1622" left hundreds slaughtered and settlements reduced to ash. And there is so much more.
I found Horns' writing to be simple and eloquent. The history is presented as a narrative and so it was easy to follow the different characters and the flux of events that took place from 1607 onward. I found it all fascinating and was astonished at the fact that the colony eventually flourished despite constantly befalling to sickness, disease and death.
Jamestown's success eventually helped spur the growth of the other colonies and gave birth to the United States that we know today. ( )