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According to Wikipedia, Peter Mancall is a professor of history at the University of Southern California whose work has focused on early America, American Indians, and the early modern Atlantic world. Biography A 1981 graduate of Oberlin College, Mancall attended graduate school at Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in history in 1986, under the supervision of Bernard Bailyn. Mancall was a visiting Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College from 1986 to 1987. After teaching as a Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard for two years, he took a position at the University of Kansas in 1989. In 2001, Mancall took a position at the University of Southern California, where he helped to create the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute in 2003, becoming its first director. He has served on the editorial board of several journals, and from 2007 to 2009 he was Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement at the University of Southern California. During the 2019-2020 academic year, Mancall served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at USC and Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences at USC Dornsife.

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Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (2007) (69)
Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (1995) (69)
Conquering Bodies@@@Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2002) (61)
Drinking Careers: A Twenty-Five Year Study of Three Navajo Populations (1994) (56)
Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (2011) (53)
Exemplar of liberty : native America and the evolution of democracy (1993) (50)
SLAVE PRICES AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA ECONOMY, 1722–1809 (2001) (50)
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (2007) (35)
Was Ecomomic Growth Likely in Colonial British North America? (1999) (32)
American encounters : natives and newcomers from European contact to Indian removal, 1500-1850 (2001) (31)
The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 (2012) (30)
American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal (2001) (25)
World and Ground (2017) (23)
Travel narratives from the age of discovery : an anthology (2006) (23)
Tales Tobacco Told in Sixteenth-Century Europe (2004) (21)
Maori and Alcohol: A Reconsidered History (2000) (20)
Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640 (1995) (20)
Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800 (1992) (17)
Agricultural Labor Productivity in the Lower South, 1720-1800 (2001) (17)
Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800 (2011) (15)
At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (2003) (13)
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760–1820. By Alan Taylor. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990. Pp. xiv, 381. $35.00, cloth; $14.95, paper (1991) (13)
Conjectural Estimates of Economic Growth in the Lower South, 1720 to 1800 (2000) (10)
American nations : encounters in Indian country, 1850 to the present (2001) (10)
The Raw and the Cold: Five English Sailors in Sixteenth-Century Nunavut (2013) (9)
Fatal journey : the final expedition of Henry Hudson--a tale of mutiny and murder in the Arctic (2009) (9)
Exports and the economy of the Lower South region, 1720–1770 (2007) (8)
Richard Hakluyt the Younger's Notes for the East India Company in 1601: A Transcription of Huntington Library Manuscript EL 2360 (2004) (8)
Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply (2006) (7)
The Transformation of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1800. (1992) (6)
Exports from the Colonies and States of the Middle Atlantic Region 1720–1800 (2013) (6)
The Moral Economy of the Eighteenth-Century Backcountry@@@Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783. (1992) (6)
“The Bewitching Tyranny of Custom”: The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America (1993) (6)
Native Americans and Europeans in English America, 1500–1700 (1998) (6)
Commodity Exports, Invisible Exports and Terms of Trade for the Middle Colonies, 1720 to 1775 (2008) (5)
Sam White. A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America. (2019) (5)
Men, Women, and Alcohol in Indian Villages in the Great Lakes Region in the Early Republic (1995) (5)
The Trials of Thomas Morton (2019) (4)
Slave Prices in the Lower South, 1722-1815 (2000) (4)
Cold War and McCarthy era : people and perspectives (2010) (4)
Introduction: Observing More Things and More Curiously (2007) (4)
The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700–1783. By Michael P. Morris. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 160. $55.00 (2000) (3)
Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800 (1992) (3)
Introduction: What Fynes Moryson knew (2006) (3)
Bringing the world to early modern Europe : travel accounts and their audiences (2007) (3)
Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image (1997) (2)
Chapter 10. ‘‘Collecting Americans’’: The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA (2011) (2)
Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800 (2006) (2)
Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier. (1994) (2)
The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: New Estimates for the Middle Colonies (2008) (2)
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic (2017) (2)
Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe (2006) (2)
Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience (2005) (2)
South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809 (2000) (1)
Atlantic Colonies@@@The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic@@@American Colonies (2002) (1)
The Revolutionary War and the Indians of the Upper Susquehanna Valley (2007) (1)
Indians and the Economy of Eighteenth-Century Carolina (2020) (1)
Review of The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Margaret A. Kennedy (1998) (1)
The Multicultural Origins of British America (1992) (1)
Before 1619 (2019) (1)
Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians (2005) (1)
Governing the sea in the early modern era : essays in honor of Robert C. Ritchie (2015) (1)
Cultural Encounters: Americans and Europeans (2008) (1)
Encyclopedia of Native American History (2011) (1)
Peter C . Mancall on Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxford-Shire (2004) (1)
The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere. Edited by Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 633. $75.00. (2003) (1)
Collecting Across Cultures (2011) (1)
Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis. Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4231-7, $49.95 (cloth) (2014) (0)
Oxford, c. 1571 Rumors (2007) (0)
Amsterdam's America (2003) (0)
"The Art of Getting Drunk" in Colonial Massachusetts (1996) (0)
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Aspects of Early Native American History Cluster (2007) (0)
London, c. 1592 Woodson's Tusk (2007) (0)
Invading America: The English Assault on the New World 1497–1630 (2013) (0)
Our Savage Ancestors (2008) (0)
Civil War : people and perspectives (2009) (0)
London, 1609 Virginia Richly Valued (2007) (0)
Thinking with James Bay: Crees, English, and Cold (2017) (0)
Wetheringsett and London, 1614 The Malayan Dialogues (2007) (0)
03.12.09, Enterline, Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus (2003) (0)
Note on Sources (2019) (0)
Paris and London, 1584 The Grammar of Colonization (2007) (0)
Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe (review) (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
03.04.20, Enterline, Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus (2003) (0)
Power and Identity (2020) (0)
Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1770-1800 (1993) (0)
Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe, eds. A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia’s Ecology in the Cultural Imagination. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. vii+231 pp.; 46 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $84.95. (2018) (0)
Chapter Three. Oxford, c. 1571: Rumors (2017) (0)
Economic History of the United States: Precolonial and Colonial Periods (2021) (0)
Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade by Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis (review) (2014) (0)
14. CONJECTURAL ESTIMATES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE LOWER SOUTH, 1720 TO 1800 (2003) (0)
Book Review: Wales and the British Overseas Empire: Interactions and Influences, 1650–1830 (2012) (0)
Three worlds meet beginnings to 1607 (2003) (0)
Book Reviews:Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia (2009) (0)
The Age of Discovery (1998) (0)
European Empires in the American South: Colonial and Environmental Encounters, ed. Joseph P. Ward (2019) (0)
Oxford, 1577 The Ice (2007) (0)
Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 300 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-509866-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-510906-6.) (1999) (0)
The Early Explorers (2015) (0)
Lost in Jamestown (2004) (0)
Reviews of Books:Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Patricia E. Rubertone (2005) (0)
Paris and London, 1584 to 1589 Cabinets and Curiosities (2007) (0)
Paris, 1583 The Devouring Sea (2007) (0)
Provocations: The Age of Failure (2021) (0)
Chapter Nine. London, 1590 to 1600: Truth and Lies (2017) (0)
United States and Canada (1990) (0)
Bernard Bailyn's Barbarous Modernity (2022) (0)
"A Separate People": Becoming and Being Choctaw and Cherokee (1998) (0)
Richard Hakluyt's Problem (2007) (0)
Four. Cutthroats in Canaan (2019) (0)
Westward expansion, 1800-1860 (1999) (0)
The Mighty Niagara: One River—Two Frontiers. By John N. Jackson with John Burtniak and Gregory P. Stein. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2003. 486 pp. $35.00, isbn 1-57392- 980-8.) (2004) (0)
The Brittle Thread of Life: Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America . By Mark Williams . ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 2009 . Pp. xi, 265. $45.00 .) (2010) (0)
Chapter Five. Oxford, c. 1580: Passages (2017) (0)
Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture Along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800. (1992) (0)
Oxford, c. 1580 Passages (2007) (0)
The Inhabited Universe (2012) (0)
Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. By S. Max Edelson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 383. $45 (2008) (0)
Frédéric Regard, ed.The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576–1806. Empires in Perspective 19. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. x + 190 pp. $99. ISBN: 978-1-84893-270-8. (2014) (0)
London, 1568 The Visit (2007) (0)
"Nothing Capable of Being Memorized is History," R. G. Collingwood (2010) (0)
Peter Mancall interview, "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson" (2009) (0)
The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History. Joseph C. Miller, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxxvi + 532 pp. $65. (2016) (0)
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1500–1700 . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+327. $60.00 (cloth). (2008) (0)
Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature Gordon Sayre (1999) (0)
London, 1590 to 1600 Truth and Lies (2007) (0)

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