Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures. By Frederic W. Gleach. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 241. $55.00.)

The seventeenth-century indigenous leader, Powhatan, and his daughter, Pocahontas, are two of the most easily identified Indians in early American history and so early Powhatan-English interactions in colonial Virginia seem familiar to many historians and students. In this insightful book, anthropologist Frederic W. Gleach ...