The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624

The 18 essays in this volume provide a fresh perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. The collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the mosaic of regions and influences that formed the context and impetus for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. The volume reflects an understanding of Jamestown not as the birthplace of democracy in America but as the creation of a European outpost in a neighborhood that included Africans, Native Americans, and other Europeans.

Preface	p. V
Introduction	p. 1
Native American Settings
Tsenacommacah and the Atlantic World	p. 29
Between Old World and New: Oconee Valley Residents and the Spanish Southeast, 1540-1621	p. 66
Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace	p. 97
Africa and the Atlantic
The Caravel and the Caravan: Reconsidering Received Wisdom in the Sixteenth-Century Sahara	p. 143
The Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic World	p. 170
Central African Leadership and the Appropriation of European Culture	p. 194
African Identity and Slave Resistance in the Portuguese Atlantic	p. 225
European Models
The Multinational Commodification of Tobacco, 1492-1650: An Iberian Perspective	p. 251
Revisioning the "French Atlantic": or, How to Think about the French Presence in the Atlantic, 1550-1625	p. 274
Kings, Captains, and Kin: French Views of Native American Political Cultures in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries	p. 307
Virginia's Other Prototype: The Caribbean	p. 342
Intellectual Currents
Moral Uncertainty in the Dispossession of Native Americans	p. 383
Discourses of Western Planting: Richard Hakluyt and the Making of the Atlantic World	p. 410
Reading Ralegh's America: Texts, Books, and Readers in the Early Modern Atlantic World	p. 454
The Genius of Ancient Britain	p. 489
The Atlantic World and Virginia, 155O-1624
Imperfect Understandings: Rumor, Knowledge, and Uncertainty in Early Virginia	p. 513
The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia	p. 541
Virginia and the Atlantic World	p. 558
Conference Program	p. 571
Index	p. 575
Notes on the Contributors	p. 595
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