The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500-1820

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The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.

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.