Carla Pestana
Carla Pestana is professor of history and the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America and the World at UCLA. She was the 2015–16 Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington.
Publications
The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661
Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam.
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Robbery and Rats in 17th-Century Jamaica
Posted on May 5, 2016