Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640
by Peter C. Mancall
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Through a collection of documents and a revised introduction that incorporates updates in scholarship over the past two decades, particularly on the north and environmental history, Peter C. Mancall gives twenty-first century readers a glimpse of the time when the possibility of colonizing North America was anything but certain. Pamphlets, accounts, and engravings from the late-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century capture the process of English colonization from its origins in show more promotional propaganda to its realization on the shores of North America. New to this edition is Ferdinando Gorges' A briefe Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England, which extends the geographical range of this collection and reminds readers of the difficulties the English experienced in new regions. An updated chronology and bibliography, along with new Questions for Consideration, further aid students' understanding of this compelling topic. show lessTags
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Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Professor of History and Anthropology, and the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the author of five books, including Fatal journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson-A Tale of show more Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic; Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America; and Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol In Early America; and the editor of ten books, including The Atlantic World and Virginia 1550-1624 and Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery. show less
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- Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640
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- 1995
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