Customer Review: This wasn't at all what I expected. It read more like a history book regarding the economic battle between nations to finding the NE or NW passage to spices and riches.
The actual account of Hudson's voyages and especially his fatal voyage was minor in comparison to events that wrapped around... more info
Customer Review: If one wants to waste his time reading about conjectures without any facts or much in the way of relevant primary sources, at least through the first third of this book, he will be in hog heaven. Also, the organization is often hap-hazard and frequently irrelavent to anything I thought the book... more info
Customer Review: i read this for a class in early-modern British History. The study of tracing Americas colonial roots in England is not common and this book attempts to give a start. I found the book amazingly repetitive in ideas and concerns and felt better research on the primary documents could have been done to... more info
Customer Review: In general this is a good book. The problem I have with this book is that it is just a compilation of old information a reader of eighteenth century America can find elsewhere. Another problem with the book I have is that there are no foot notes. There is just a section in the back where the author... more info
Customer Review: i needed this for class, its better buying on amazon then on those other sites, where books are used and can be sent in a different condition then expected
Customer Review: THIS IS A CLEAR AND INTERESTING PRESENTATION. IT BEGINS WITH THE COST OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR AND THE NEED TO PAY FOR IT AND ENDS WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW NATION. PROFESSOR MANCALL IS A DYNAMIC SPEAKER AND HOLDS THE LISTNERS ATTENTION. THIS PROGRAM IS WELL WORTH WHILE FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN... more info
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