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""This excellent selection of texts fills an important niche. In a brief yet comprehensive manner, Envisioning America provides students with an understanding of the beginnings of colonization and why the various European nations became interested in founding colonies when they did.""

This excellent selection of texts fills an important niche. In a brief yet comprehensive manner, Envisioning America provides students with an understanding of the beginnings of colonization and why the various European nations became interested in founding colonies when they did.

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Peter C. Mancall is a professor of history and anthropology at the University ofSouthern California. Heis also Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement at theuniversity, andthe director of theUSC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. His scholarly work examines early American history with a particular focus on American Indians, the environment, and economic development. He has been a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and a Mellon Resident Research Fellow at the American Philosophical Society Library. He is the author of Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800 (1991) and the forthcoming Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America.""

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