Showing Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia by Margaret Holmes Williamson

A portrait and revisionist study of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm, which encompassed the Tidewater area of Virginia from the James River to the Potomac River. This work illuminates alternative conceptions of power and cosmology that force reconsideration of important components of Powhatan society.