Focusing in on the time in our history when colonizing North America was still very much an uncertainty, Envisioning America uses pamphlets, accounts, and engravings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to detail the Englishs process of colonization.

Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Professor of History and Anthropology, 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 five books, including Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson--A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic; Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America; and Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol In Early America, and the editor of ten books, including The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 and Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery.