COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

Abstract

It is impossible to think about “colonial encounters” without confronting the idea of colonization, a word that can easily be understood as a euphemism for conquest. The last five centuries have seen the world transformed and, in many respects, devastated by the expansion of European interests through colonization. Our own country was born from a conquest that began with the establishment of thirteen small colonies. One of them, Jamestown, was the settlement that gave rise to the state of Virginia.