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Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America

Karen Kupperman

In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain?hopeful and fearful?about the opportunity and challenge presented by new realities. Indians and English both believed they could control the developing relationship. Each group was curious about the other, and interpreted through their own standards and traditions. At the same time both came from societies in the process of unsettling change and hoped to derive important lessons by studying a profoundly different culture. These meetings and early relationships are recorded in a wide variety of sources.

HistoryAmerican History · medium confidenceAmerican History81 signalsLlm Classifier: American History -> American HistoryAward Category: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryRegional & Local History

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
American Historical Association Book Prizes: James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History2000WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

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    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • East Coast of North America60%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    English venturers and Algonquians along the East Coast of North America each believed they could manage a developing relationship, while interpreting the other through their own standards amid uncertain, changing societies.

    Model confidence 52%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 58%.