Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Turner, E Randolph III | Copyright information

Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia. By MARGARET HOLMES WILLIAMSON. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xiv, 323 pp. $55.00.

OVER the past fifty years there has been a remarkable and continuously expanding interest in the re-examination of Powhatan culture c. 1607, whether it be from the perspective of archaeology, history, ethnohistory, or anthropology. Margaret Holmes Williamson's Powhatan Lords of Life and Death is the lates...

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