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"Pocahontas and the English Boys" explores the culture of Early Virginia."--Provided by publisher.

Despite the settlers' dependence on the Algonquians and strained relations with London backers, they forged a colony that survived where others had failed. Reconfiguring the myth of Jamestown's failure, Kupperman shows how the settlement's first decade represented a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work.

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...