It is a history most likely only vaguely familiar to most Americans. history books, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, delivers a solid narrative in A Kingdom Strange of the main social, political, military, and economic issues surrounding England’s effort to colonize America. Horn, Vice President of Research and Historical Interpretation at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and author of, among other U.S. One such reminder is A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James Horn, a history of the effort in 1587 to establish the first English colony in America. Indeed, lest we get too complacent about the luxuries and comfort we all take for granted today, it is sometimes useful to remind ourselves of the sacrifices made by those in the past who struggled to establish footholds in foreign lands, and of the inhabitants of those lands who tried to defend themselves against exploitation. We also dream of colonizing other planets in our fiction, but we actually just have to look to our past to witness how difficult this task truly was. Colonizing a new land, whether on another planet or even just across an ocean, can be perilous work-obstacles are often insurmountable and constant danger close.
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