Compiled in response to emerging transnational perspectives in American Studies, this comprehensive and imaginative anthology brings together a rich variety of works of colonial literature from across the Americas, covering the period from first contact, through to settlement and the emergence of national identities, with an emphasis on the American Revolutionary period.
* Includes canonical texts as well as a an expanded selection from New Spain, New France, New Netherland, the Chesapeake and the West Indies. * Offers extensive coverage of texts by women, African Americans and Native Americans.
