The early modern colonization of the Americas ranks among the most influential developments that shaped the modern world. Between the initial exploratory European contacts with the Americas in the late fifteenth century and the eventual independence of American states from Europe lies the multifaceted development of small communities into large colonies, which drew upon their European inheritance
and their New World experience and interaction with non-European cultures and societies to form distinctive cultures and identities. The peer-reviewed Journal of Early American History is dedicated to the advancement of scholarly understanding of the history of the colonization of the Americas and will appear three times annually. It offers explorations on any aspect of early American history to a broad audience of historians. These investigations may be conceived in the broadest way chronologically, geographically, and thematically, whether in explicitly comparative studies, or by the grouping of studies. Editors
Jaap Jacobs, University of St Andrews (Scotland)
L.H. Roper, State University of New York—New Paltz (USA)
Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, Université de Poitiers (France)
Evan Haefeli, University of Texas A&M (USA)
Book Review Editors
- for books published in French: Anne-Marie Liberio, Université Paris 8 (France)
- for books published in English: Kristin Condotta-Lee, Washington University in St Louis (USA)
- for books published in Spanish: Alejandro Garcia-Monton, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain)
Editorial Board
Sarah Barber, Lancaster University (UK)
Luca Codignola, Università di Genova, (Italy)
Max Edling, King’s College London (UK)
Gilles Havard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifijique (CNRS), Paris (France)
Paul Otto, George Fox University (USA)
James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona ( Jamaica)
John Smolenski, University of California, Davis (USA)
Cécile Vidal, Centre d'Études Nord Américaines, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)
Editorial Assistant
Dave Gardiner, University of Albany—SUNY (USA)
