Saturday, February 28, 2015

Virginia and Bermuda: What Really Happened.?


        Jamestown shares a history with Bermuda, its sister colony. This from a recent review of a book (mine).
 

       "Virginia Bermhard’s detailed and revealing historical study... insightful and reader-friendly ... provides us with a careful and brutally honest reconstruction of the naked plunder, unbridled greed, festering corruption, unabashed hypocrisy, and systematic disrespect for human life and welfare which...characterized the founding of the first two permanent English colonies in the Americas....

 ...What makes this volume special, however, is the systematic, straightforward, and non-polemical manner in which it configures this evidence...."
 --Caribbean Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2 (July - December 2013. 

      Was this early history better characterized as “heroic” or “glorious” ?


       There are two sides to every historical narrative.
 Comments welcome.
 


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