Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

by Margaret Huber

A richly textured portrait of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm emerges in this revisionist study. For decades the English colonists at and around Jamestown lived in the shadow of a powerful confederation of Native American communities led by Powhatan. That realm encompassed the Tidewater area of Virginia from the James River to the Potomac River. For many years Powhatan skillfully staved off threats from other Native peoples and from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803260377
• ISBN13: 9780803260375
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"