Bøker av Wilcomb E. Washburn

A history of the legal status of the American Indians and their land from the period of first contact with Europeans to the present day. This edition includes discussions of important legal events in the last 25 years.

This is the definitive study of the unsuccessful rebellion in Virginia led in 1676 by the younger Nathaniel Bacon, celebrated in history as the rebel, against Sir William Berkeley, the colonial governor of Virginia and one of the lords proprietors of Carolina. Using all known English and American sources, Washburn sheds light on many misconceptions surrounding the episode.