The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the JamesRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008 M12 16 - 320 páginas From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was along the James that British and Native American cultures collided and, in a twisted paradox, the seeds of democracy and slavery were sown side by side. The culture crafted by Virginia's learned aristocrats, merchants, farmers, and frontiersmen gave voice to the cause of the American Revolution and provided a vision for the fledgling independent nation's future. Over the course of the United States' first century, the James River bore witness to the irreconcilable contradiction of a slave-holding nation dedicated to liberty and equality for all. When that intractable conflict ignited civil war, the James River served as a critical backdrop for the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. As he guides readers through this exciting historical narrative, Deans gives life to a dynamic cast of characters including the familiar Powhatan, John Smith, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, and Robert E. Lee, as well as those who have largely escaped historical notoriety. The River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and finishes with Lincoln's tour of the defeated capital of Richmond in 1865. Deans traces the historical course of a river whose contributions to American life are both immeasurable and unique. This innovative history invites us all to look into these restless waters in a way that connects us to our past and reminds us of who we are as Americans. |
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... Powhatan. That's where, for me, this story began. It would never had grown into a book, though, without the able hand of my agent, Zoe Pagnamenta, who took a more or less raw idea, helped nurture it through the proposal process, and ...
... Powhatan. That's where, for me, this story began. It would never had grown into a book, though, without the able hand of my agent, Zoe Pagnamenta, who took a more or less raw idea, helped nurture it through the proposal process, and ...
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... Powhatan people of Virginia draws heavily from the scholarship of Helen Rountree, who has devoted a distinguished career to the wide-ranging and meticulous study that has enabled her to piece to- gether the lives of people who left ...
... Powhatan people of Virginia draws heavily from the scholarship of Helen Rountree, who has devoted a distinguished career to the wide-ranging and meticulous study that has enabled her to piece to- gether the lives of people who left ...
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... Powhatan and Pocahontas, Patrick Henry, John Smith, Jefferson, Washing- ton, Lincoln, and Lee. Their voices testify to the rawest ingredients of nation-building: accomplishment and ruin, charity and greed, selfishness and sacrifice ...
... Powhatan and Pocahontas, Patrick Henry, John Smith, Jefferson, Washing- ton, Lincoln, and Lee. Their voices testify to the rawest ingredients of nation-building: accomplishment and ruin, charity and greed, selfishness and sacrifice ...
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... Powhatan word for river. When the English first ar- rived, the Native Americans there called the James the Powhatan after the paramount chief of the tribes that ranged across the eastern and coastal half of what is now Virginia. The ...
... Powhatan word for river. When the English first ar- rived, the Native Americans there called the James the Powhatan after the paramount chief of the tribes that ranged across the eastern and coastal half of what is now Virginia. The ...
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... Powhatan , the English settler John Rolfe raised the colony's first cash crop , leading the way to the export down the James of Vir- ginia tobacco , the first source of profit for the fledgling foothold in what would one day become the ...
... Powhatan , the English settler John Rolfe raised the colony's first cash crop , leading the way to the export down the James of Vir- ginia tobacco , the first source of profit for the fledgling foothold in what would one day become the ...
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Chapter 05 Democracy in America | 89 |
Chapter 06 Wade in the Water | 117 |
Chapter 07 Liberty or Death | 159 |
Chapter 08 River of Dreams | 217 |
Chapter 09 A New Birth of Freedom | 249 |
Undimmed by Human Tears | 277 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index | 299 |
About the Author | 319 |
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