English Begins At Jamestown
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English Begins At Jamestown
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Author : TIM WILLIAM. MACHAN
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-29
English Begins At Jamestown written by TIM WILLIAM. MACHAN and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with categories.
Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and frameworks they adopt. Even slightly different choices lead to significantly different narratives. English Begins at Jamestown investigates the factors behind these choices and the effects they have on our understanding of the English language and its history. Tim Machan explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status as a global language. He describes how narrative principles are constructed, what kinds of facts and analyses they allow or prevent, and what can be known outside of them. The book's historically and critically wide-ranging arguments center on the themes of social purpose, aesthetics, periodization, and grammatical structure, while the conclusion extends the discussion into the roles of speakers themselves, who have transformed the grammar and pragmatics of English since the colonial period embodied in the Jamestown settlement. English Begins at Jamestown shows that there are better, worse, and wrong ways to narrate the language's history, even if there cannot necessarily be one correct way.
Jamestown
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Author : Alan Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Jamestown written by Alan Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Lord Watson has written a short book of great fascination and importance. It is a story that begins with an English sea voyage, and culminates in the voyage of the English language, a voyage that is now in full flood. Four hundred years have passed since that first voyage. In itself it was historic, taking the language of a small island to the coast of a vast continent. The British and the Americans who used it, as both grew in territorial and spiritual strength, came to treasure it. Not only is the wealth and diversity of English expanding every day, but the language coveys the past of the English-speaking peoples and the values that they learned over time: the central ideas of law, governance and free enterprise.
Love And Hate In Jamestown
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Author : David A. Price
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Love And Hate In Jamestown written by David A. Price and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith’s life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.
Jamestown
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Author : Elizabeth Anderson Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Little Brown
Release Date : 1974-01-01
Jamestown written by Elizabeth Anderson Campbell and has been published by Little Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Envisioning An English Empire
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Author : Robert Appelbaum
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-05-23
Envisioning An English Empire written by Robert Appelbaum and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-23 with History categories.
Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it. The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among many in the long development of the North Atlantic world. Ireland, Spain, Morocco, West Africa, Turkey, and the Native federations of North America all played a role alongside the Virginia Company in London and English settlers on the ground. English proponents of empire responded as much to fears of Spanish ambitions, fantasies about discovering gold, and dreams of easily dominating the region's Natives as they did to the grim lessons of earlier, failed outposts in North America. Developments in trade and technology, in diplomatic relations and ideology, in agricultural practices and property relations were as crucial as the self-consciously combative adventurers who initially set sail for the Chesapeake. The collection begins by exploring the initial encounters between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians and the relations of both these groups with London. It goes on to examine the international context that defined English colonialism in this period—relations with Spain, the Turks, North Africa, and Ireland. Finally, it turns to the ways both settlers and Natives were transformed over the course of the seventeenth century, considering conflicts and exchanges over food, property, slavery, and colonial identity. What results is a multifaceted view of the history of Jamestown up to the time of Bacon's Rebellion and its aftermath. The writings of Captain John Smith, the experience of Powhatans in London, the letters home of a disappointed indentured servant, the Moroccans, Turks, and Indians of the English stage, the ethnographic texts of early explorers, and many other phenomena all come into focus as examples of the envisioning of a nascent empire and the Atlantic world in which it found a hold.
Jamestown America S First Permanent English Settlement
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Author : Carole Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Gallopade International
Release Date : 2011-03-01
Jamestown America S First Permanent English Settlement written by Carole Marsh and has been published by Gallopade International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The 22-book American Milestone series is featured as "Retailers Recommended Fabulous Products" in the August 2012 edition of Educational Dealer magazine. In May of 1607, 104 men and boys came to what would one day be known as America. They were ill-suited for the task. Learn about the hardships they faced and how they (finally) adapted to their new surroundings to establish a foothold in the New World. This book includes: The Virginia Company Captain John Smith Godspeed, Discovery, and Susan Constant John Rolfe James Fort Christopher Newport Lord De La Warr The Starving Time Pocahontas Chief Powhatan Historic Jamestowne today and lots more! This book helps kids understand this momentous event and its impact on America's future. Reproducible activities make it fun for kids to learn about the historic people, places, and fact that are part of American History. A partial list of the Table of Contents include: A Timeline of Events The First Settlements Let's Live Right Here Master and Commander A Man with a Plan! This Land is Our Land! Daily Life as a Powhatan Welcome to James Fort! What Shall I Wear? The Dread of Disease How Does Tobacco Grow? And Much More!
A Land As God Made It
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Author : James Horn
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2008-07-31
A Land As God Made It written by James Horn and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with History categories.
The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history Although it was the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown is too often overlooked in the writing of American history. Founded thirteen years before the Mayflower sailed, Jamestown's courageous settlers have been overshadowed ever since by the pilgrims of Plymouth. But as historian James Horn demonstrates in this vivid and meticulously researched account, Jamestown-not Plymouth-was the true crucible of American history. Jamestown introduced slavery into English-speaking North America; it became the first of England's colonies to adopt a representative government; and it was the site of the first white-Indian clashes over territorial expansion. A Land As God Made It offers the definitive account of the colony that give rise to America.
Jamestown The First English Colony
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Author : Susan Sales Harkins
language : en
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-12-23
Jamestown The First English Colony written by Susan Sales Harkins and has been published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-23 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In 1606, one hundred and five men left England for the western shores of the Chesapeake Bay. They were looking for adventure, land, and treasure. Instead of gold and silver, the men found a dark and mysterious wilderness. A few, like John Smith, found friendship with the local natives. Others found new lives, hacked out of the Virginia wilderness. Most, however, found disease, starvation, and eventually death. Two-thirds of the original Jamestown settlers died within the first year. Still, the English kept coming. Land and opportunity were worth the risks. By 1621, Jamestown had grown to 1,200 settlers, and people from the first successful English colony began to branch out and settle other towns. The Building America series tells the story of the early years in which America struggled to become an independent nation. Jamestown: The First English Colony details the extraordinary circumstances and often harrowing experiences overcome by the persistent Englishmen who wanted to settle in Virginia.
The Jamestown Project
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Author : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Jamestown Project written by Karen Ordahl Kupperman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl Kupperman Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, escaped, and returned to England in time to join the Virginia Company's colonizing project. In Jamestown migrants, merchants, and soldiers who had also sailed to the distant shores of the Ottoman Empire, Africa, and Ireland in search of new beginnings encountered Indians who already possessed broad understanding of Europeans. Experience of foreign environments and cultures had sharpened survival instincts on all sides and aroused challenging questions about human nature and its potential for transformation. It is against this enlarged temporal and geographic background that Jamestown dramatically emerges in Karen Kupperman's breathtaking study. Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, she shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. Despite the settlers' dependence on the Chesapeake Algonquians and strained relations with their London backers, they forged a tenacious colony that survived where others had failed. Indeed, the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth. Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads, plays, and paintings, and the stark reality of Jamestown--for Indians and Europeans alike--through the words of its inhabitants as well as archeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates these formative years with astonishing detail.
Jamestown
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Author : Marshall William Fishwick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Jamestown written by Marshall William Fishwick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Jamestown (Va.) categories.