Karen ordahl kupperman biography of martin luther
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Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
volume editors
David D. Hall
David Grayson Allen
Philip Chadwick Foster Smith
Associate Editor
The Colonial Society of Massachusetts
copyright © 1984
the colonial society of massachusetts
library of congress catalogue card number 84–73442
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13. H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past, and Future, 2 vols. (London, 1972, 1977), II, 463; and his The Changing Climate (London, 1966), 11, 65, 144; John Gribbin and H. H. Lamb, “Climatic Change in Historical Times,” in John Gribbin, ed., Climatic Change (Cambridge, 1978), 70–71; Martin L. Parry, Climatic Change, Agriculture, and Settlement (Hamden, Conn., 1978), 38–39, 66, 163–168; Andrew B. Appleby, Famine in Tudor and Stuart England (Stanford, Calif., 1978); and “Epidemics and Famine in the Little Ice Age,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, X (1979–1980), 645; John D. Post, “Climatic Change and Historical Explanation,” ibid., 296; Gustav Utterstrom, “Climatic Fluctuations and Population Problems in Early Modern History,” Scandinavian Economic History Review, III (1955), 3–47. Professor Lamb sees evidence of severe weather in Asia during the seventeenth century. For a somewhat different int
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The Jamestown Project
Historians have come to love the milestone anniversaries of significant historical events. Such anniversaries provide an entire year to schedule conferences, unveil new television documentaries, stage elaborate recreations, and release new books that reflect upon the current state of scholarship concerning the given topic. This year provides such opportunities as the four hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, the first of England's colonial projects in North America to survive permanently in what would become the United States. It is in this context that Karen Ordahl Kupperman offers her engaging and accessible interpretation of the settlement of early Virginia in The Jamestown Project.
This book will surprise readers looking to delve immediately into the adventures of Captain John Smith and the other English settlers as they struggle to establish a viable colony and interact with the local Native Americans such as Powhatan and his famous daughter, Pocahontas. Such familiar stories are included, and Kupperman brings them to life in strong and thoughtful prose as she interprets the latest research on the topic, but they are to be found nearly two thirds of the way through the text. The seventh of nine chapters is entitled "Jamestown's U
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