Contested continent : the struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680 / Peter C Mancall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mancall, Peter C., author.

Series:

Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered)

The Oxford history of the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--History.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous peoples--History.

Indigenous peoples.

America--Discovery and exploration--Pre-Columbian.

America.

North America--History.

North America.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 727 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

The newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, Contested Continent recounts the origins of "America" and how it came to birth the United States. The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. 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. This is a sweeping history of developments crucial to the eventual founding of the United States. Contested Continent underscores 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.

Contents:

Prologue

Preface

Part I: Discoveries

Chapter 1: 1450

Chapter 2: "People without number"

Chapter 3: "Canada"

Chapter 4: The Lost Colony of Chicora

Chapter 5: Entradas

Chapter 6: The Destruction of the Indies

Chapter 7: Florida

Chapter 8: Elizabethans and Americans

Chapter 9: The Algonquian Moment

Chapter 10: After Roanoke

Chapter 11: Acoma and Santa Fe

Chapter 12: Promise and Peril Along the St. Lawrence

Chapter 13: The Coldest Years

Part II: Colonies

Chapter 14: Rescues

Chapter 15: Gathering Storms

Chapter 16: The Battle for Tsenacommacah

Chapter 17: Pilgrims

Chapter 18: The Arc of European Opportunity

Part III: Fractures

Chapter 19: "From East to West"

Chapter 20: Uncivil Wars

Chapter 21: Enslavement

Chapter 22: An Empire for Extraction

Chapter 23: A New England

Chapter 24: From the Headwaters

Chapter 25: Rebellions

Chapter 26: Legacies

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195372786

0195372786

OCLC:

1579986611