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The World of Plymouth Plantation
Written by Carla Gardina Pestana
Narrated by Susie Berneis
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This intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement and sets the colony properly within history.
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Carla Gardina Pestana
Carla Gardina Pestana is a professor of history and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of The English Conquest of Jamaica and The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661.
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