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Bezig met laden... Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith?door J. A. Leo Lemay
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A succinct introduction to the issue, a telling of both sides, and a thorough refutation of the idea that Smith made the whole thing up after Pocahontas had died. As someone who came to this subject through Davidson and Lytle, and not knowing much about it in depth, I had always been in the "could have been true, could have been made up, we'll never know camp." Now, I do think, pretty firmly, that Smith's account was true. Lemay makes logical mincemeat out of Smith's detractors (especially the poor gadfly Henry Adams) and establishes a strong case for Smith's veracity and the historicity of the episode. Highly recommended for a historiographical class, those interested in colonial Virginia, and those looking for a quick read. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
By the mid-nineteenth century, Captain John Smith, the early colonial explorer and settler, was a well-known figure in American history. The story of how, in 1607, the Powhatan princess Pocahontas saved him from execution by her tribe appeared in all the standard American histories. Numerous plays, novels, and poems were devoted to the episode. Starting in the 1860s, however, scholars began to question Smith's published accounts of the Pocahontas incident, and a controversy ensued, with Henry Adams becoming Smith's most famous detractor. Today many scholars continue to regard Smith as a vainglorious braggart who lied about his rescue. J. A. Leo Lemay offers the first full analysis of the historiography of this debate. Examining all of the primary and secondary evidence, he persuasively demonstrates that the incident did in fact occur. A tightly argued study, Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? not only refutes the outright skeptics; it effectively reverses the prevailing judgment that the truth will never be known. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.2History and Geography North America United States Colonial period (1607-1775)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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