Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History at New York University.

The Jamestown experiment receives a new slant in this carefully researched book. Indeed, Kupperman...treats all of the factors that converged to bring forth the realization of the project, emphasizing the extraneous aspects of the founding of the Virginia colony rather than the unfolding of the New World venture itself. Not until two-thirds of the way through does the author take up the actual Virginia settlement. Kupperman places Jamestown in the context of a hundred years of European expansion. The book is especially valuable for thorough introductions of important players hitherto neglected by historians.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Creation Myths 1. Elizabethan England Engages the World 2. Adventurers, Opportunities, and Improvisation 3. Indian Experience of the Atlantic 4. English Hunger for the New 5. Grasping America's Contours 6. A Welter of Colonial Projects 7. Jamestown's Uncertain Beginnings 8. The Project Revised 9. James Cittie in Virginia Notes Index

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History at New York University.

The Jamestown experiment receives a new slant in this carefully researched book. Indeed, Kupperman...treats all of the factors that converged to bring forth the realization of the project, emphasizing the extraneous aspects of the founding of the Virginia colony rather than the unfolding of the New World venture itself. Not until two-thirds of the way through does the author take up the actual Virginia settlement. Kupperman places Jamestown in the context of a hundred years of European expansion. The book is especially valuable for thorough introductions of important players hitherto neglected by historians.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Creation Myths 1. Elizabethan England Engages the World 2. Adventurers, Opportunities, and Improvisation 3. Indian Experience of the Atlantic 4. English Hunger for the New 5. Grasping America's Contours 6. A Welter of Colonial Projects 7. Jamestown's Uncertain Beginnings 8. The Project Revised 9. James Cittie in Virginia Notes Index

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History at New York University.

The Jamestown experiment receives a new slant in this carefully researched book. Indeed, Kupperman...treats all of the factors that converged to bring forth the realization of the project, emphasizing the extraneous aspects of the founding of the Virginia colony rather than the unfolding of the New World venture itself. Not until two-thirds of the way through does the author take up the actual Virginia settlement. Kupperman places Jamestown in the context of a hundred years of European expansion. The book is especially valuable for thorough introductions of important players hitherto neglected by historians.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Creation Myths 1. Elizabethan England Engages the World 2. Adventurers, Opportunities, and Improvisation 3. Indian Experience of the Atlantic 4. English Hunger for the New 5. Grasping America's Contours 6. A Welter of Colonial Projects 7. Jamestown's Uncertain Beginnings 8. The Project Revised 9. James Cittie in Virginia Notes Index