PETER C. MANCALL is professor of history and anthropology at the University of Southern California and director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is author of Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America and editor of Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

"This volume's creative vision of our colonial origins places Jamestown's establishment in 1607 in its rich, often surprising pan-Atlantic context.... It sets the standard for reflecting, four hundred years later, on the human diversity and contingency of what turned out, after all, to have been a foundational moment in a history of a nation no less diverse or complex." - Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia"

PETER C. MANCALL is professor of history and anthropology at the University of Southern California and director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is author of Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America and editor of Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

"This volume's creative vision of our colonial origins places Jamestown's establishment in 1607 in its rich, often surprising pan-Atlantic context.... It sets the standard for reflecting, four hundred years later, on the human diversity and contingency of what turned out, after all, to have been a foundational moment in a history of a nation no less diverse or complex." - Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia"

PETER C. MANCALL is professor of history and anthropology at the University of Southern California and director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is author of Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America and editor of Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

"This volume's creative vision of our colonial origins places Jamestown's establishment in 1607 in its rich, often surprising pan-Atlantic context.... It sets the standard for reflecting, four hundred years later, on the human diversity and contingency of what turned out, after all, to have been a foundational moment in a history of a nation no less diverse or complex." - Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia"