Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans

ISBN-13: 9780199672974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 520 str.

University of Ea Malcolm (Professor of Early Modern History

Opis

The transatlantic story of how the English settlers of seventeenth century North America became Americans - from the near-calamitous first settlement at Jamestown in 1607 to the drama of the Salem witch trials.

Recenzje

Students and researchers will certainly benefit from reading Between Two Worlds. Gaskill has illuminated a wealth of new evidence about the lives of Americas earliest English settlers... Misha Ewen, The Seventeenth Century.

O autorze

Malcolm Gaskill is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Educated at Cambridge University, he has taught at several UK universities and was formerly Fellow and Director of Studies at Churchill College, Cambridge. An authority on witchcraft and witch-trials, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the social and cultural history of England between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, including Witchcraft: a Very Short Introduction (2010), also published by Oxford University Press.