| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. By James Horn. (New York: Basic, 2005. xii, 337 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-465-03094-7.)

This scholarly treatment of the early years of Jamestown and the Virginia colony is well timed. Events of almost exactly four hundred years ago (starting in 1607) are about to be commemorated, celebrated, and—now and then—perhaps even dissected by school children, teachers, tourists, media, public historians, and assorted heritage-keepers both on and offsite. What better guide could there be to the tangled history of the first two English decades in and around Jamestown than the one under review, written by James Horn. A respected social historian and current director of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Horn knows the history of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake as well as anyone, and he is also an expert on the experiences of Britons venturing far from home to settle in the colonies of mainland North America.

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