The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624

by Peter C. Mancall (editor)

In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the mosaic of regions and influences that formed the context and impetus for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. The volume reflects an understanding of Jamestown not as the birthplace of democracy in America but as the creation of a European outpost in a neighborhood that included Africans, Native Americans, and other Europeans.With contributions from both prominent and rising scholars, this volume offers far-ranging and compelling studies of peoples, texts, places, and conditions that influenced the making of New World societies. As Jamestown marks its four-hundredth anniversary, this collection provides provocative material for teaching and launching new P. Boucher, University of Alabama, HuntsvillePeter Cook, Nipissing UniversityJ. H. Elliott, University of OxfordAndrew Fitzmaurice, University of SydneyJoseph Hall, Bates CollegeLinda Heywood, Boston UniversityJames Horn, Colonial Williamsburg FoundationE. Ann McDougall, University of AlbertaPeter C. Mancall, University of Southern CaliforniaPhilip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins UniversityDavid Northrup, Boston CollegeMarcy Norton, The George Washington UniversityJames D. Rice, State University of New York, PlattsburghDaniel K. Richter, University of PennsylvaniaDavid Harris Sacks, Reed CollegeBenjamin Schmidt, University of WashingtonStuart B. Schwartz, Yale UniversityDavid S. Shields, University of South CarolinaDaviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill UniversityJames H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJohn Thornton, Boston University

Genres: History

583 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

A 1981 graduate of Oberlin college, Peter Mancall attended graduate school at Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in history in 1986. Mancall was a visiting Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College from 1986 to 1987. After teaching as a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard for two years, he took a position at the University of Kansas in 1989. In 2001, Mancall took a position at the University of Southern California, where he helped to create the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute in 2003, becoming its first director. He has served on the editorial board of several journals, and from 2007 to 2009 he was Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement at the University of Southern California.

Mancall has written five books and edited eight others, and written around forty book reviews in such journals as American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of the Early Republic, and many others. His newest book, Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic was published by Basic Books on June 9, 2009. Mancall has accepted an offer to write Volume 1 of the Oxford History of the United States series covering American colonial history to c. 1680.

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Reviews

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely academic and scholarly. Not easy to digest in large quantities.. Read the LAST essay FIRST!

[Brad Hayes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a light read, but serious historical scholarship that lives up to the high standards set by previous publications from the Omohundro Institute.