APU HIST553 Assignment - Jamestown Matters” Website Analysis Latest 2019 November

HIST553 History of Colonial America

Assignment - Jamestown Matters” Website Analysis

"Jamestown Matters" Website Analysis: The “Jamestown Matters” analysis is drawn from the scholarly examination of the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University) site “Jamestown Matters.”

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/Virginia%20matters/index1.html (Available Under "Exhibitions" page 4)

This site commemorates the 400th anniversary of the English settlement at Jamestown, and contains an extraordinary gathering of "foundation" books. In order to encourage "adventurers" (investors) and "planters" (colonists) the Virginia Company of London published nine tracts between 1609 and 1615 that described in glowing terms the opportunities presented by the new colony on the James River in Virginia. The documents in this collection present one of the most important sources of information about the early years of the colony. Once you have carefully examined the material, write an informal, 750-1,000 word review of the website that answers the following three questions. Note - There is a 250 word count minimum for each question response:

1. What generalizations can be made about the early stages of English colonialism in North America?

2. How did the early English explorers view the land and people of the "New World"?

3. How did the colonists portray their role in the contact experience?

*Note: You are required to explicitly use the site's webpages in each of your responses. For example: "In item [25] "Idyllic Vision of Virginia," Theodor de Bry offers potential colonists overly optimistic written and pictorial descriptions of the country lured the unwary by presenting Virginia as a kind of "no work required" land of milk and honey."

The website review shall be typed, double-spaced, and in a 12-point Times New Roman font. There will be 15 possible grade points awarded for submission of the “Jamestown Matters” analysis. See the attached sample document – including placeholder (Lorem Ipsum) text – for the assignment’s recommended format.

Use file attachment protocols for assignment submission. Please be forewarned that the sample provided is only discussing how the questions may be addressed, so feel free to use that as a template. Obviously, it does not pertain to citation or other specifics (it is in Latin after all).