The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia by James Axtell

The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

James Axtell

42 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This book describes how the English vied with the Powhatan Indians to dominate the lands and resources in Tidewater Virginia. The author depicts the native inhabitants and the newcomers as equal actors in a drama whose outcome was not a foregone c...

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