{"product_id":"the-world-of-plymouth-plantation-9780674238510","title":"The World of Plymouth Plantation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation that goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement--the hard work, small joys, and deep connections to others beyond the shores of Cape Cod Bay.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe English settlement at Plymouth has usually been seen in isolation. Indeed, the colonists gain our admiration in part because we envision them arriving on a desolate, frozen shore, far from assistance and forced to endure a deadly first winter alone. Yet Plymouth was, from its first year, a place connected to other places. Going beyond the tales we learned from schoolbooks, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an illuminating account of life in Plymouth Plantation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe colony was embedded in a network of trade and sociability. The Wampanoag, whose abandoned village the new arrivals used for their first settlement, were the first among many people the English encountered and upon whom they came to rely. The colonists interacted with fishermen, merchants, investors, and numerous others who passed through the region. Plymouth was thereby linked to England, Europe, the Caribbean, Virginia, the American interior, and the coastal ports of West Africa. Pestana also draws out many colorful stories--of stolen red stockings, a teenager playing with gunpowder aboard ship, the gift of a chicken hurried through the woods to a sickbed. These moments speak intimately of the early North American experience beyond familiar events like the first Thanksgiving. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the 400th anniversary of the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e landing and the establishment of the settlement, \u003ci\u003eThe World of Plymouth Plantation\u003c\/i\u003e recovers the sense of real life there and sets the colony properly within global history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePestana, Carla Gardina:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of \u003ci\u003eThe English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914298429714,"sku":"9780674238510","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2e5ec519-ac28-4b89-9a07-8f967841608e.jpg?v=1738812028","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-world-of-plymouth-plantation-9780674238510","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}