Alfred A. Cave - Lethal Encounters. Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia [2011][A]

Book Description
Publication Date: January 20, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0313393354 | ISBN-13: 978-0313393358
Britain's first successful settlements in America occurred over 400 years ago. Not surprisingly, the historical accounts of these events have often contained inaccuracies. This compelling study of colonial Virginia is based upon the latest research, shedding new light on the tensions between the English and the American Indians and clarifying the facts about storied relationships.
In Lethal Encounters: Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia, the author examines why the Anglo settlers were unable to establish a peaceful and productive relationship with the region's native inhabitants. Readers will come to understand how the deep prejudices harbored by both whites and Indians, the incompatibility of their economic and social systems, and the leadership failures of protagonists like John Smith, Powhatan, Opechacanough, and William Berkeley caused this breakdown.

This book:
• Presents the first comprehensive study of Indian–Anglo relations in Virginia to span the entire 17th century
• Contains information and materials of great interest to students of American history as well as Native American and multicultural studies
• Offers a detailed evaluation of the failure of peaceful coexistence in the Virginia colony
• Provides a new analysis of the Pocahontas story based on contemporary research
• Draws extensively on primary source materials such as letters, memoirs, legislative proceedings, and court records
• Includes John Smith's 1612 map of Virginia, which identifies the location of Indian settlements.

Book Description II
While the romanticized story of the Jamestown colony has been retold many times in books, films, and even comic strips, the events following the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are less well-known. The peace and goodwill did not last; in fact, within 100 years of the English settlers' arrival in Virginia, the Indian population was reduced by over 90 percent through warfare, disease, and indiscriminate extermination.