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Indlæser... Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin (udgave 2019)af Joseph Kelly (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. "Marooned" turns most of the myths surrounding our founding on their heads. The cruelty of the early 17th Century is hard to bear at times, but hard truths make good lessons. Every serious student of American history should read this book. ( ) This is one of the best new books about the Jamestown story because Kelly looks at it in a different way than previous authors. He chooses to examine the deserters of the colony (the maroons) to uncover what their behavior tells us about Jamestown leadership. His depiction of John Smith is new and convincing. A chapter on the likely sexual relations between colonists and Indians is also fresh. I've read just about every book about Jamestown and Pocahontas that is still in print, and this book deserves more attention. Really, this is one of the good ones, and I would say a must read for Jamestown history buffs. There are almost no reviews of this book on LibraryThing, but on another similar site (you know which one I mean), some reviewers complain about the author going off on tangents. This is the case, but if you roll with the tangents and appreciate how they tie in, you will be rewarded. For example, Kelly discusses the essay of Montaigne "Of Cannibals" and relates it to English views of the Indians. I may be predisposed to appreciate the French essayist Montaigne, but this connection is worthwhile and I'm glad Kelly made it. Marooned, Jamestown, shipwreck, and a new history of America's origin by Kelly_ Joseph About the author and a summary of the book. Starts with the ship and the storm as they are heading west, 1611. 7 ships have left England in 1609 for virginia. Lots of notes that are referenced but not included in this audio tape. ust want to hear the story-not the notes. So much more it focuses on: shakesphre, JFK, etc I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
"For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled city on a hill. Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a cautionary tale. Lazy louts hunted gold till they starved, and the shiftless settlers had to be rescued by English food and the hard discipline of martial law. Neither story is true. In Marooned, Joseph Kelly reexamines the history of Jamestown and comes to a radically different and decidedly American interpretation of these first Virginians. In this gripping account of shipwrecks and mutiny in America's earliest settlements, Kelly argues that the colonists at Jamestown were literally and figuratively marooned, cut loose from civilization, and cast into the wilderness. The British caste system meant little on this frontier: those who wanted to survive had to learn to work and fight and intermingle with the nearby native populations. Ten years before the Mayflower Compact and decades before Hobbes and Locke, they invented the idea of government by the people. 150 years before Jefferson, they discovered the truth that all men were equal. The epic origin of America was not an exodus and a fledgling theocracy. It is a tale of shipwrecked castaways of all classes marooned in the wilderness fending for themselves in any way they could--a story that illuminates who we are today"-- No library descriptions found. |
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