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Marooned : Jamestown, shipwreck, and a new history of America's origin

Title: Marooned : Jamestown, shipwreck, and a new history of America's origin / Joseph Kelly.
Author: Kelly, Joseph, 1962-
Publication: New York ; London ; Oxford : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

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Description

ix, 500 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-451) and index.

Contents

Renegades -- Tsenacomoco -- Nantaquod on the James -- Call of the wild -- Maroons -- The American adventure -- Lost -- The first frontier -- Trouble times -- The kiss my arse revolution -- Rescue.

Call Number

JFE 19-445

ISBN

9781632867773
163286777X

LCCN

2018003587
40028628349

OCLC

1019931760

Author

Kelly, Joseph, 1962- author.

Title

Marooned : Jamestown, shipwreck, and a new history of America's origin / Joseph Kelly.

Publisher

New York ; London ; Oxford : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-451) and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1775

Other Standard Identifier

40028628349

Research Call Number

JFE 19-445

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