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- Title
- Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640 (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
- Author
- Mancall, Peter C.
- Publisher
- Bedford/St. Martin's
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312096704
- ISBN 13
- 9780312096700
- Item weight
- 15 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x8
This collection of documents 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 promotional propaganda to its realization on the shores of North America.
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About the Author
Peter C. Mancall is a professor of history and anthropology at the University of Southern California. He is also Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement at the university, and the director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. His scholarly work examines early American history with a particular focus on American Indians, the environment, and economic development. He has been a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and a Mellon Resident Research Fellow at the American Philosophical Society Library. He is the author of Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800 (1991) and the forthcoming Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America.
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