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Roanoke

The Abandoned Colony, 2nd Edition

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

In telling the tragic and heroic story of Roanoke, the “lost colony,” award-winning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman recovers the earliest days of English exploration and settlement in America—the often forgotten years before Jamestown and the landing of the Mayflower.

Roanoke explores Britain’s attempt to establish a firm claim to North America in the hope that colonies would make England wealthy and powerful. Kupperman brings to life the men and women who struggled to carve out a settlement in an inhospitable environment on the Carolina coast and the complex Native American cultures they encountered. She reveals the mixture of goals and challenges that led to the colony’s eventual abandonment, and discusses the theories about what might have become of the first English settlers in the New World as they adapted to life as Indians.

With a new preface and afterword written by the author, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony brings the fascinating story of America’s earliest settlement up-to-date, bringing together new work from scholars in a variety of fields. The story of Roanoke remains endlessly fascinating. It is a tale marked by courage, miscalculation, exhilaration, intrigue, and mystery.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 208 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7425-5263-0 • Paperback • January 2007 • $24.95 • (£18.99)

978-1-4422-1029-5 • eBook • January 2007 • $23.70 • (£17.99)

Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History / Native American, History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Roanoke

The Abandoned Colony, 2nd Edition

Paperback

Summary

In telling the tragic and heroic story of Roanoke, the “lost colony,” award-winning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman recovers the earliest days of English exploration and settlement in America—the often forgotten years before Jamestown and the landing of the Mayflower.

Roanoke explores Britain’s attempt to establish a firm claim to North America in the hope that colonies would make England wealthy and powerful. Kupperman brings to life the men and women who struggled to carve out a settlement in an inhospitable environment on the Carolina coast and the complex Native American cultures they encountered. She reveals the mixture of goals and challenges that led to the colony’s eventual abandonment, and discusses the theories about what might have become of the first English settlers in the New World as they adapted to life as Indians.

With a new preface and afterword written by the author, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony brings the fascinating story of America’s earliest settlement up-to-date, bringing together new work from scholars in a variety of fields. The story of Roanoke remains endlessly fascinating. It is a tale marked by courage, miscalculation, exhilaration, intrigue, and mystery.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 208 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7425-5263-0 • Paperback • January 2007 • $24.95 • (£18.99)

978-1-4422-1029-5 • eBook • January 2007 • $23.70 • (£17.99)

Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History / Native American, History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Author

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History at New York University. She is the award-winning author of Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America and Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: England's Bid for Greatness
Chapter 2: The First Colony: A Military Outpost
Chapter 3: Expectations
Chapter 4: The Carolina Algonquians on the Eve of Colonization
Chapter 5: The Strained Relationship of Indians and Colonists
Chapter 6: The Debate Over Colonies
Chapter 7: A Genuine Settlement
Chapter 8: Abandonment at Roanoke
Chapter 9: Endings
Epilogue: The Nature of Successful Colonization
Afterword

Reviews

Roanoke is the best book on the subject . . . skillfully reconstructing the events and invoking the personalities of England's first American outpost. And more than any previous work on the subject, it reveals how the Indians played crucial roles in the rise and fall of Raleigh's Lost Colony. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University

The definitive account of the 'lost colonists' of Roanoke. Karen Ordahl Kupperman tells a dramatic story of courage, greed, and misadventure. . . . Anyone curious about the enduring mysteries of Roanoke will enjoy Kupperman's book. (Previous Edition Praise)
— T. H. Breen, Northwestern University

Evokes a powerful sense of this dramatic, yet tragic, chapter in the English colonial experience in North America. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Choice Reviews

A sensitive, stimulating, and exceptionally well-written book. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Journal of American History

A skillful and readable account of a fascinating chapter in American history. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Journal of Southern History

A work of drama and intrigue. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Los Angeles Times

Roanoke

The Abandoned Colony, 2nd Edition

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Roanoke

The Abandoned Colony, 2nd Edition

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