Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
- ISBN-10
- 0809095300
- ISBN-13
- 9780809095308
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 223
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-10-13
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Camilla Townsend
Description
Arguing that Native Americans offered an intelligent and nuanced resistence to colonial domination, the author investigates the role Pocahontas, and her father king Powhatan, played in history, from a new perspective. 15,000 first printing.
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- 2005-09-07
- 240 pages
- Ebook
- Hill and Wang
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