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
Afterword
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.
A sensitive, stimulating, and exceptionally well-written book.
A skillful and readable account of a fascinating chapter in
American history.
A work of drama and intrigue.
Evokes a powerful sense of this dramatic, yet tragic, chapter in
the English colonial experience in North America.
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.
The definitive account of the 'lost colonists' of Roanoke. Karen
Ordahl Kupperman tells a dramatic story of courage, greed, and
misadventure. . . . Anyone curious about the enduring mysteries of
Roanoke will enjoy Kupperman's book.
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