The Rise & Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (The Foundations of America)
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Author(s)James Axtell
PublisherColonial Williamsburg Foundation
ISBN / ASIN0879351535
ISBN-139780879351533
Sales Rank2,363,417
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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This book describes how the English vied with the Powhatan Indians to dominate the lands and resources in Tidewater Virginia. The author depicts the native inhabitants and the newcomers as equal actors in a drama whose outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Softbound.