Podcast appearances and mentions of Peter C Mancall

My guest Peter C. Mancall's new book is Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000–1680. It is, now, the first volume in the Oxford History of the United States, an ongoing multi-volume narrative series—a series whose story is worth an episode in and of itself.In Contested Continent, Mancall describes the foundation of that place which would eventually become the United States. It is a long era of human history which foreshadowed that which was to come, one in which peoples from four continents came together in a collision of violence and mutuality in North America. “Much of what happened,” he writes, “came to define the American experience, including the rise of a booming transatlantic economy based on the extraction of abundant American natural resources, the central role European migrants and their descendants played in the enslavement of Africans, the displacement of Indigenous peoples, and the spread of self-governing polities where many people enjoyed religious liberty. None of those developments was inevitable. Nor did sweeping changes occur quickly.” Or we might say that like the glaciers of an advancing ice age, the events of this era often seem slow and ponderous, but ultimately they change everything that gets in their way.Peter C. Mancall is Distinguished Professor, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, and Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous books, including Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson and Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America.

This week we're going back to 17th century Virginia with Disney's Pocahontas! Join us to learn about pugs, the promises of the Virginia Company, tattoos, Governor Ratcliffe, and more! Sources: IMDB, Pocahontas: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 The Making of Pocahontas, Documentary available at https://youtu.be/-78sG39u-3g Pocahontas, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1063452-pocahontas Roger Ebert Review, Pocahontas: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pocahontas-1995 John White, "Woman of the Secotan-Indians of North Carolina," 1585, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_carolina_algonkin-kleidung01.jpg Edward L Bond, "Source of Knowledge, Source of Power: The Supernatural World of English Virginia, 1607-1624," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 108, 2 (2000) AT Sinclair, "Tattooing of the North American Indians," American Anthropologist 11, 2 (1909) Pocahontas, Powhatan Museum of Arts and Indigenous Culture, available at http://www.powhatanmuseum.com/Pocahontas.html Joseph Highmore, Portrait of a Lady with a Pug Dog, painting reproduction available at https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/portrait-of-a-lady-with-a-pug-dog-70968 Portrait of a Lady From the Order of the Pug, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Attributed_to_Anna_Rosina_Lisiewska_-_Portrait_of_a_Lady_from_the_Order_of_the_Pug.png William Hogarth, the Painter and His Pug, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Painter_and_His_Pug_by_William_Hogarth.jpg Photo of Mausoleum of William the Silent, available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/14806345853 Pugs, American Kennel Club, available at https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeds/pug-history-ancient-companion-origins/ Laura D. Gelfand, Our Dogs, Ourselves: Dogs in Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society. Brill, 2016 Forrest K. Lehman, "Settled Place, Contested Past: Reconciling George Percy's "A Trewe Relacyon" with John Smith's "Generall Historie," Early American Literature 42:2 (2007): 235-61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25057497  Jeffrey L. Sheler, "Rethinking Jamestown," Smithsonian Magazine (January 2005) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rethinking-jamestown-105757282/  John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles: together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.0262a/?st=gallery  (82-106) Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings ed. Karen Ordahl Kupperman (University of North Carolina, 1988) 79-132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807839317_kupperman.9    Martin H. Quitt, "Trade and Acculturation at Jamestown, 1607-1609: The Limits of Understanding," The William and Mary Quarterly 52:2 (1995): 227-258. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2946974  Walter L. Hixson, ""No Savage Shall Inherit the Land": The Indian Enemy Other, Indiscriminate Warfare, and American National Identity, 1607-1783," U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other eds. Michael Patrick Cullinane and David Ryan, 16-41 (Bergahn Books, 2015). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qct9n.4  Virginia Bernhard, "Poverty and the Social Order in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 85:2 (1977): 141-155. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4248117   Misha Ewen, ""Poore Soules": Migration, Labor, and Visions for Commonwealth in Virginia," in Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America eds. Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn, 133-149 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469651811_musselwhite.11  Hugh T. Lefler, "Promotional Literature of the Southern Colonies," The Journal of Southern History 33:1 (1967): 3-25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2204338     

Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/native-american-studies

Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter C. Mancall tells the story in The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale UP, 2019), in what reads perhaps like a historical legal thriller novel. Most of our knowledge of Morton comes from the records left by his enemies, but Mancall's new research into this enigmatic figure unveils how this unlikely anti-hero can shed tremendous light on alternate possibilities in the contentious early years of the European-Native encounter. Morton's own writings portray a vision of an altogether different kind of indigenous–settler future. Yet Morton's continued antagonism of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonial governments led to his repeated exile. While he was repudiated by the earliest generations of readers for debauchery and political menace, subsequent generations continue to find in Thomas Morton a countercultural icon in a world dominated by religious dissidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

In this episode we discuss a book written by Thomas Morton (c.1579 –1647) an early colonist of North America and his book New English Canaan, printed in Amsterdam in 1637, a copy of which can be found in The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Americana Collection. Our guest is Peter C. Mancall. In his 2019 book, The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England, he writes about the importance of Morton and The New English Canaan. Professor Mancall is a history professor at the University of Southern California, focusing on early America, Native Americans, and the early modern Atlantic world.

Professor Peter Mancall (University of Southern California) delivered the 2019 Harmsworth Lecture in American History at 5 pm on Tuesday 19 November. Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California. He is the author of six books and an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and the Royal Historical Society. He gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1986.