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

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Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire) Paul Mapp (College of William and Mary, Virginia)

The Cambridge History of America and the World

Volume 1, 1500–1820

Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire), Paul Mapp (College of William and Mary, Virginia), Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Cambridge University Press
07 August 2025

History of the Americas; Diplomacy

Series: The Cambridge History of America and the World

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.

Edited by: Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire), Paul Mapp (College of William and Mary, Virginia), Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781108410243
ISBN 10: 1108410243
Series: The Cambridge History of America and the World
Pages: 619
Publication Date: 07 August 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.