World of Plymouth Plantation

On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world.

About the author

Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire and The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661.

Summary

On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana’s telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world.

Product details

• Authors: Carla Gardina Pestana, Pestana Carla Gardina
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780674238510
• ISBN: 978-0-674-23851-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, USA: Kolonisierung und Besiedlung (ca. 1600 bis 1775), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History - U.S., HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, C 1600 To C 1700, HISTORY / Indigenous / General