Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Naming and Spelling -- Introduction: A Great Shout -- Chapter 1. Heavy Heads: Crowning Kings in Early Virginia -- Chapter 2. The Ransom of Pocahontas: Kidnapping and Dynastic Marriage in Jamestown and London -- Chapter 3. Gunpowder Diplomacy: Arms and Alliance in Plymouth and Patuxet -- Chapter 4. Trading Sovereignty: The Fur Trade and the Freedom of the Seas -- Chapter 5. Gift of an Empire: The Land Market and the Law of Nations in Narragansett Bay -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Paper Sovereigns demonstrates that treaty making and breaking in the early North Atlantic world involved complex struggles and crosscultural systems of negotiation, establishing Native American treaties as a powerful influence on European colonization
