Alden T. Vaughan

Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789

Early American Indian Documents

Recounts the life and career of the Elizabethan soldier of fortune, adventurer, and cartographer-publicist of the New World as they reflect his nation's expanding imperial enterprise and the beginnings of American settlement.

Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia

American Genesis

American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776

Transatlantic Encounters

Virginia Mason Vaughan

A collection of new essays offering students a range of current perspectives on The Tempest, providing both context and critical overviews.

A Critical Reader

The Tempest

Presents a composite portrait of life in the colonial days through original letters, journals, diaries and reports.

America Before the Revolution, 1725-1775

The Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeare's most popular, malleable and controversial plays.

The Tempest: A Critical Reader

This important new collection brings together ten of Alden Vaughan's essays about race relations in the British colonies. Focusing on the variable role of cultural and racial perceptions on colonial policies for Indians and African Americans, the essays include explorations of the origins of slavery and racism in Virginia, the causes of the Puritans' war against the Pequots, and the contest between natives and colonists to win the other's allegiance by persuasion or captivity. Less controversial but equally important to understanding the racial dynamics of early America are essays on early English paradigmatic views of Native Americans, the changing Anglo-American perceptions of Indian color and character, and frontier violence in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania. Published here for the first time are an extensive exposé of slaveholder ideology in seventeenth-century Barbados, the second half of an essay on Puritan judicial policies for Indians, a general introduction, and headnotes to each essay. All previously published pieces have been revised to reflect recent scholarship or to address recent debates. Challenging standard interpretations while probing previously-ignored aspects of early American race relations, this convenient and provocative collection by one our most incisive commentators will be required reading for all scholars and students of early American history.

Essays on the Colonial Experience

Roots of American Racism

A classic documentary collection on New England's Puritan roots is once again available, with new material.

Alden T. Vaughan

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