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The introduction of of The Jamestown Project talks about the difficulty of setting up a new colony in North America. The first decade were a struggle to the colony; they were not welcome by their Natives neighbors. Things were quickly turn around when John Rolfe developed a marketable crop, tobacco (Kupperman, 1). Tobacco generated the colony huge profits and other ventures. Within few years, The English colony created a successful society with systems of land ownership, taxation, and a profitable market economy (Kupperman, 2). Jamestown set up an example for future colonies to success in America.
Some of the theoretical intervention I got out of this reading are Discovery and Culture Clash. When English colony planted Jamestown in Virginia in 1607, that land already owned by the Natives for hundreds of years before. The Europeans tend to view Native people as uncivilized savages and they were wrong. The Natives were far from clueless; they understood a great deal about the European. They knew about the transatlantic voyagers, about the European’s characters.
George Brooks’ article discusses how ecological factor influenced the migration and settlement patterns of the Mande. Like Matt Everett stated on his blog, the Mande were aware of the climate around them and knew they have to learn how adapt to changes in order to survive and flourish. This article also reminds me of the argument in Grove’s Green Imperialism, that in other to understand imperialism, one has to study and understand environmentalism first.