| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

The Jamestown Project. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2007. x, 380 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02474-8.)

In all-too-many textbook accounts, Jamestown comes across as a hasty, chaotic, and, for Indians and colonists, lethal effort by the English to catch up on New World opportunity after a somnambulant century of indifference to colonial endeavors relieved only by the misadventures of Martin Frobisher, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Jamestown so conceived provides the "bad origins" story of America's beginnings while New England exhibits the "good origins" side of the dichotomy (p. 2). The villains are the colonists, too greedy and headstrong to farm or feed themselves, and their leaders, whose incompetence and tyranny, John Smith notwithstanding, compounded colony tragedy.

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