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

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.Mancall, Peter C. is the author of 'Envisioning America English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640', published 1995 under ISBN 9780312096700 and ISBN 0312096704.