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1. www.goodreads.com › book › showLove and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and…

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   Jan 1, 2003 · 1,380 ratings158 reviews. A New York Times Notable Book and a San Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003 In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives.

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2. press.rebus.community › openamlit › chapterJohn Smith (1580–1631) – Open Anthology of Earlier American ...

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   Introduction. John Smith was born in Lincolnshire, England in either late 1579 or early 1580, the exact date is unknown. As a child he attended a grammar school, however, he wanted to be a sailor. Instead, his father insisted that he take an apprenticeship with a merchant.

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   John Smith (1580-1631) made one voyage to the coast of Massachusetts and Maine in 1614, and attempted a second one the following year, only to be captured by French pirates and detained for several months near the Azores before escaping and making his way back to England.

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4. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentJohn Smith - American Literature - Oxford Bibliographies

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   Jan 11, 2022 · Relying on early firsthand reports from the Virginia and New England colonists and John White’s Virginia drawings, the author reviews and compares English perceptions of Native American life and beliefs.

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   This article focuses on the famous American explorer Captain John Smith. Decisive leader, prolific writer, and astute American visionary, Captain John Smith was the crucial founder of the 1607 Jamestown colony in Virginia and an inspired promoter of English colonization in North America.

6. isj.org.uk › imperialism-novel-forms-old-problemsImperialism: novel forms, old problems • International Socialism

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   Oct 7, 2016 · A review of John Smith, Imperialism in the Twenty-first Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (Monthly Review Press, 2016), £18.99. The significance of John Smith’s book lies in his powerful critique of mainstream economics and official statistics as he attempts a renewal of dependency theory.

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   How did John Smith escape?

   • Introduction John Smith (1580-1631) made one voyage to the coast of Massachusetts and Maine in 1614, and attempted a second one the following year, only to be captured by French pirates and detained for several months near the Azores before escaping and making his way back to England. This book is the story of these two voyages.

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   When did Captain John Smith write the General Historie of Virginia?

   • The General Historie of Virginia by Captain John Smith, 1624; the Fourth Booke is an anthology of Captain John Smith’s logs and writings pertaining to his experience and knowledge of Virginia. He covers years from approximately 1609 to 1623.

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   When was John Smith born?

   • John Smith was born in Lincolnshire, England in either late 1579 or early 1580, the exact date is unknown. As a child he attended a grammar school, however, he wanted to be a sailor. Instead, his father insisted that he take an apprenticeship with a merchant. After this he decided to become a soldier at age 16 and joined the military.

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   Who was Captain John Smith?

   • This is a first hand account of what happened, as Captain John Smith was aboard the ship in which Pocahontas was held captive on. Smith begins this account by introducing Captaine Argall as an old friend of his that was sent to spend twelve months in the country along with eighty other men.

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8. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography

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   Mar 20, 2007 · After a series of disasters that nearly wiped the colony out, the leader who emerged was a redoubtable commoner named John Smith. His writings on the Jamestown adventure form a riveting tale of hardship and triumph in the wilderness.