Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 1
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This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.
Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World. Her research interests include American history, US religious history and the early modern world. She has received multiple awards, grants and fellowship, including first prize in 1987 for Liberty of Conscience and the Growth of Religious Diversity in Early America, 1636-1786 (1986) by the Rare Books and Manuscript Division of the ALA. Sharon V Salinger is Professor of History and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of California - Irvine, where her interests include Early America, social history and gender. She is the author of Taverns and Drinking in Early America (2004) and more recently, the co-author of Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston (2014).