"Anglo-powhatan wars info" Topic

Dear TMPers do you know any good books about these wars? Period engravings and odbs?

Any help much appreciated.

Regards,
Tom

Savage Kingdom by Benjamin Woolley is pretty good.

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That looks like an interesting read.

I recommend Solders of the Virginia Colony: link and Warpaths: link

I have a different version of Tisdale's book, the one I have is paperback and contains illustrations and photos of equipment, weapons, tactics, etc. of both the Colonial troops and also, to a lesser extent, the Powhatan natives. It also includes history of the various wars and the fortifications used by the colonials.

Steele's book addresses all the colonial enterprises in North America but addresses Virginia pretty well. Great read.

Savage Kingdom is a very good, recent, popular history, well written and entertaining. If you're only going to read one book on early Virginia, it's a good choice.

The titles that Prince Albert's Revenge names are also very good.

If you want to read still further:

Martin D Gallivan, James River Chiefdoms/The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake is cited in Wooley's bibliography. Gallivan tries to recover from archaeology more knowledge of the Powhatans and their neighbors than we can gain from European histories of early contact. A bit dry, a bit academic, a bit PC. Not about the English at all, not particularly about warfare. Gives a clearer, more detailed picture of the Indians.

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Called to dinner. Post more later.

Seth Mallios, The Deadly Politics of Giving/Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke and Jamestown posits that one reason Indians and Europeans came into conflict is that the new-comers misunderstood the nature of their relationship with the natives. The Europeans thought they were purchasing land and goods or receiving tribute, whereas the Indians believed they were establishing a gift-exchange relationship with the strangers, and reacted with anger and violence when their new partners broke the rules.

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William L. Shea, The Virginia Militia in the Seventeenth Century is exactly what it says on the cover. A bit dry, a bit academic, good detailed analysis:

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R. E. Pritchard, Captain John Smith & His Brave Adventures is a popular biography of the stout soldier who featured so largely in Jamestown's survival. Mostly a recounting and analysis of Smith's own writings, there's lots of detail here about the fighting, intimidation and robberies he took part in.

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John White, America 1585 reproduces in full color John White's paintings from the Roanoke colony. This is the main visual record we have of the mid-Atlantic coastal Indians at first contact.

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Thomas Herriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia presents White's paintings as rendered into copper-plate engravings, coupled with Herriot's booster text that lured so many naive Englishmen across the grey Atlantic:

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For more visual inspiration, you could pop in a DVD of Thomas Malick's The New World. Gorgeously filmed, authentically cast, costumed and propped, this movie is about strangers encountering and changing one another. It's about fish out-of-water adapting to strange environments – English starving amid plenty in Virginia, Powhatans visiting London. The New World is nearly three hours long and drags in some places, there is a love story and there is war, but the movie isn't really about either thing. One story it tells is of Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas, who became the English gentlewoman Rebecca Rolfe. Another story is of the restless Englishman John Smith, who could not find a home in the New World or the Old. Too bad The New World wasn't a big hit. It deserves to be a cult favorite among history buffs:

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