The Foundations And Stigmas Of Jamestown

The three articles that are being discussed in this review are three about the foundations and stigmas of Jamestown. The First one is Capt. John Smith, Pocahontas and a Clash of Cultures: A case for the Ethnohistorical Perspective, by Author Michael J. Puglisi. Puglisi article is about the Natives at the time of Jamestown, and rather than being just victims, and passive bystanders to the Europeans, a new theory sees the Natives as direct participants with their own political agendas. The second work is The Civic Solution to the Crises of English Colonization, 1609-1625, by Andrew Fitzmaurice, who is Chief Executive Officer at Nord Anglia Education Ltd. His work is about the motives and ideas of the political landscape of Virginia Company. The

Puglisi’s work focusses on an easy read for the arguments for the uplifting of the Native, and their involvement in the political, and psychological fabric of the Jamestown colony. It has the same seeming narrative to the work by Allan Taylor in American Colonies, and focusses on a lot of the same points of the Native mindset, politics, on the Powhatan Chiefs side of the story to show the relativeness of the American population at that time with their pursuit of dominance in trade, and conquest of their own Empire. Andrew Fitzmaurice’s Article is a much more scientific approach to history in the way that it is laid out and progresses through the read. It has a lot of detail and sources throughout the work. It still has similar traits to that of Alan Taylor’s work, but it is much more specific to the political landscape, especially to the expectations and politics of the Virginia Company. LaCombe’s article longer more detailed work discussing and explaining the agendas, and forms of government in the colony of Jamestown, and the pros and cons of those decision over the early years of the colony, and is more like the work of Alan Taylor along with

The article seems to bring the other two articles together by connecting pieces, and helps understand the leaders and companies motives for what was going on during that time in the colony with the political government of the colony, their leaders, and the Virginia company itself. The company took its lessons form Dutch, French, and its failed colonies such as Roanoke for Jamestown. The significance is the links between the Virginia company’s effort, and those that came before it. The article discusses the importance of it’s well documented, and insight to political and social ideas that shaped the English Atlantic colonies, its tried and failed experiments, and political culture. The article discusses the different approaches of leading the colony between examples of humanism, or the classic English way of Patriarchist, and how those forms of leadership affected the colony with relations towards the natives. The company falsely assumed the colony could live off Native trade for food, and at the same time, the Patriarchal form of government in the colony would try to play as equals with the natives, which ultimately ended up harming the Jamestown population, as where John Smith form of Humanism seemed to acknowledge the Native forces in the area. The Natives made a point to show dominance and as the English tried to negotiate, and the approaches of