Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America

by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Book Overview

In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain--hopeful and fearful--about the opportunity and challenge presented by new realities. Indians and English both believed they could control the developing relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801482828
• ISBN13: 9780801482823
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher