Envisioning America

English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640

Author: Peter C. Mancall
ISBN: 9780312096700

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.

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Publish Date: 1995-03-15

Subjects: History / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: U.S. History and Identity (USHI))