Kupperman’s Jamestown project <\/em>paints the picture that colonization was a difficult venture. Jamestown was important to the British because they were late to the game when it came to setting up colonies in the Americas and their previous attempts did not end well. While the British wanted the Jamestown colony to thrive they did not provide their colonists with the best equipment for the job. When they first arrived there was no existing infrastructure and the town had its own semi-independent government which made every decision the settlers made important and as Kupperman noted \u201cthe keynote of their activities was improvisation\u201d (pg5). Kupperman notes that the Jamestown settlement’s environment was extremely different from the environment the Europeans and African slaves were accustomed to. As mentioned above the settlers relied heavily on improvisation and this unfamiliarity would lead them to adopting trial and error methods in order to successfully adapt to their knew environments. Given enough time however the settlers were able to set up a thriving tobacco crop that could sustain them through trade with the imperial power that watched over them, the British. Regarding the production of tobacco Matthew<\/a> makes a good point when he brings up its production in Jamestown and the parallels with the information in chapter 5 of The Atlantic World. <\/em><\/p>\n This work in particular has some loose connections with previous readings we have covered thus far. The Tobacco based cash crop farming link it with Ch. 5 of the Atlantic World<\/em> as well as Sugar Islands <\/em>reading. One could also make the argument that this works mentioning of cash crops and imperialism could link it back to Grove’s work. You could also link the treacherous environment surrounding Jamestown back to the Benton reading.<\/p>\n