BHLS Lunch with Carla Pestana

Carla Pestana (UCLA) will meet with the BHLS for a lunch discussion.

Carla Pestana is a Distinguished Professor and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California-Los Angeles. Professor Pestana has published books on religion and empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most notably Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (2009). On the subject of empire, she authored The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 (2004); and The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire (2017); She is also the co-editor with Sharon V. Salinger of Inequality in Early America (1991), and a multi-volume collection of primary texts on the early English engagement in the Caribbean, The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700. Her most recent books are The World of Plymouth Plantation (2020) and, co-edited with Eliga Gould and Paul Mapp, volume 1 of the Cambridge History of America and the World, 1500-1820.