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Origins: What Makes A Revolution?
Join University of Southern California professor Peter Mancall as he explores the origins of revolutions in America with real-world examples. From 1675 to 1680, rebellions broke out all across North America. An attempted uprising by enslaved Africans in Barbados, a Narragansett-led wave of battles in New England, and a series of attacks in New Mexico. These insurgencies shocked participants and witnesses alike. These rebellions produced long-lasting consequences and changed the ways the residents of these regions understood each other and the worlds they inhabited. Altogether, how did these uprisings foreshadow the American Revolution?
*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***
Featured Speaker: Peter Mancall
Peter C. Mancall is Distinguished Professor and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. His books include Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (Yale, 2007); Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (Basic Books, 2009); The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Making of a New England (Yale, 2019); and Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680 (Oxford, 2026), which is volume one of the Oxford History of the United States.
Join University of Southern California professor Peter Mancall as he explores the origins of revolutions in America with real-world examples. From 1675 to 1680, rebellions broke out all across North America. An attempted uprising by enslaved Africans in Barbados, a Narragansett-led wave of battles in New England, and a series of attacks in New Mexico. These insurgencies shocked participants and witnesses alike. These rebellions produced long-lasting consequences and changed the ways the residents of these regions understood each other and the worlds they inhabited. Altogether, how did these uprisings foreshadow the American Revolution?
*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***
Featured Speaker: Peter Mancall
Peter C. Mancall is Distinguished Professor and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. His books include Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (Yale, 2007); Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (Basic Books, 2009); The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Making of a New England (Yale, 2019); and Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680 (Oxford, 2026), which is volume one of the Oxford History of the United States.
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