Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 15001820

This volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America.

About the author

Eliga Gould is a Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, which won the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's Best Book Prize.Paul Mapp is an Associate Professor of History at William and Mary. He is the author of The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713–1763, and co-editor of Colonial North America and the Atlantic World: A History in Documents.Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The World of Plymouth Plantation; The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire; Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World; and The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661.

Summary

This volume examines how the United States emerged out of a series of commercial, colonial, and imperial encounters. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, it presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America.

Product details

• Assisted by: Carla Gardina Pestana (Editor), Paul Mapp (Editor), Pestana Carla Gardina (Editor), Eliga Gould (Editor), Eliga (University of New Hampshire) Gould (Editor), Paul (College of William and Mary Mapp (Editor), Carla Gardina (University of California Pestana (Editor)
• Authors: Eliga (University of New Hampshire) Mapp Gould
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2021
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781108419222
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41922-2
• Pages: 618
• Series: Cambridge History of the Ameri; The Cambridge History of America and the World
• Subjects: HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, c 1500 onwards to present day, Diplomacy, History of the Americas, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards