Table of Contents

Chapter 1: England's Bid for Greatness
Chapter 2: The First Colony: A Military Outpost
Chapter 3: Expectations
Chapter 4: The Carolina Algonquians on the Eve of Colonization
Chapter 5: The Strained Relationship of Indians and Colonists
Chapter 6: The Debate over Colonies
Chapter 7: A Genuine Settlement
Chapter 8: Abandonment at Roanoke
Chapter 9: Endings
Epilogue: The Nature of Successful Colonization

About the Author

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History at New York University. She is the award-winning author of Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America and Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony.

Reviews

Roanoke is the best book on the subject . . . skillfully reconstructing the events and invoking the personalities of England's first American outpost. And more than any previous work on the subject, it reveals how the Indians played crucial roles in the rise and fall of Raleigh's Lost Colony.
*Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University*

Professor Kupperman provides what must surely be the definitive account of the 'lost colonists' of Roanoke. She tells a dramatic story of courage, greed, and misadventure. . . . Anyone curious about the enduring mysteries of Roanoke will enjoy Kupperman's book.
*T. H. Breen, Northwestern University*

Evokes a powerful sense of this dramatic, yet tragic, chapter in the English colonial experience in North America.
*CHOICE*

A sensitive, stimulating, and exceptionally well-written book.
*Journal of American History*

A skillful and readable account of a fascinating chapter in American history.
*Journal of Southern History*

A work of drama and intrigue.
*Los Angeles Times*