{"product_id":"contested-continent-the-struggle-for-north-america-c-1000-1680-oxford-history-of-the-united-states","title":"Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, C. 1000-1680 (Oxford History of the United States)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMaps \n\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Introduction \n\u003cbr\u003eGlossary \n\u003cbr\u003eNote on Spelling \n\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations \n\u003cbr\u003ePrologue \n\u003cbr\u003ePreface \n\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Discoveries \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: 1450 \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: \"People without number\" \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: \"Canada\" \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The Lost Colony of Chicora \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Entradas \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: The Destruction of the Indies \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Florida \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Elizabethans and Americans \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: The Algonquian Moment \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: After Roanoke \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Acoma and Santa Fe \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: The Coldest Years \n\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Colonies \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Rescues \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Gathering Storms \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: The Battle for Tsenacommacah \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17: Pilgrims \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18: The Arc of European Opportunity \n\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Fractures \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19: \"From East to West\" \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20: Uncivil Wars \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21: Enslavement \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22: An Empire for Extraction \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23: A New England \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24: From the Headwaters \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25: Rebellions \n\u003cbr\u003eChapter 26: Legacies \n\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue \n\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Essay \n\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeter C. Mancall\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished Professor, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, and the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous books including \n\u003cem\u003eFatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson\u003c\/em\u003e and \n\u003cem\u003eHakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America\u003c\/em\u003e. His writings have appeared in the \n\u003cem\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/em\u003e, \n\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e, the \n\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \n\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, among other outlets. He is a fellow of the Society of American Historians and the Royal Historical Society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003cem\u003eContested Continent\u003c\/em\u003e is magisterial. Mancall's smoothly written and prodigiously researched work opens the door to the America of the pre-Columbian age in which the foundation for the America we know was laid. This book is destined to become indispensable.\" -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of \n\u003cem\u003eThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wide-ranging and authoritative, \n\u003cem\u003eContested Continent\u003c\/em\u003e tells a complex story with remarkable clarity. Enslaved Africans, enduring Natives, and contentious colonizers interacted in kaleidoscopic patterns to reshape North America. A leading historian of American origins, Peter Mancall offers a sure guide into a deeply contested terrain.\" -- Alan Taylor, author of \n\u003cem\u003eAmerican Colonies: The Settlement of North America\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In this expansive and authoritative book, Peter Mancall masterfully weaves Europe and the Americas together and follows multiple narratives to create a compelling picture of a changing world. It will surely become the go-to work for understanding how European colonization of an Indigenous continent shaped what we know as early America\" -- Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"How did 'America' begin? Peter Mancall's brilliant, necessarily and inventively capacious opening volume for the Oxford History of the United States shines powerful interpretive and narrative light on its origins. Drawing on an exceptional depth of material, including decades of expert scholarship, Mancall shows a world made new through contest among diverse and powerful Indigenous peoples who defined the continent for the whole of the long period under study, the scattered Europeans who came to claim it, and the Africans they enslaved.\" -- Karin Wulf, Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nearly 500 pages describing 17th century North America deliver far more details than school history texts-and in far superior prose... Excellent survey of North America's early history.\" -- \n\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, \n\u003cem\u003eContested Continent\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the origins of \"America\" and how it came to birth the United States. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two \n\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. In the newest volume in the series, Peter C. Mancall recounts how North America was forged from the experiences of millions of Indigenous women and men as well as Europeans and Africans. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first volume of the Oxford History of the United States series, \n\u003cem\u003eContested Continent\u003c\/em\u003e is also the most ambitiously far-ranging history of North America concentrating on the period from c. 1000 to 1680, from the arrival of Norse explorers to an explosion of revolts that underlined the stubborn struggle to master the continent some two centuries after Columbus's landfall. This history spans the continent from the North Atlantic to the West Indies and includes the entire Atlantic basin. Mancall emphasizes the experiences of diverse peoples while, at the same time, telling a new story about the origins of major aspects of American culture. He illuminates the rise of a booming trans-Atlantic economy based on the extraction of abundant American natural resources; the central role that European migrants and their descendants played in the enslavement of Africans and the displacement of Indigenous peoples; and the spread of self-governing polities where many enjoyed religious freedom. None of these developments was inevitable. Conflicts broke out frequently as different peoples battled over precious resources. Europeans' appetites for material gain and expanding Christendom brought horrific consequences for those brutalized, enslaved, and vulnerable to infectious diseases. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a sweeping history of developments crucial to the eventual founding of the United States. \n\u003cem\u003eContested Continent \u003c\/em\u003eunderscores the titanic struggles between the peoples who had populated the Americas for centuries and the migrants from the Old World who initiated changes that created a New World that offered boundless opportunities for some and crushed the aspirations of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/15\/2026 (EAN 9780195372786, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496224096534,"sku":"9780195372786","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780195372786.jpg?v=1783057727","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/contested-continent-the-struggle-for-north-america-c-1000-1680-oxford-history-of-the-united-states","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}