Explorers and Colonies: America, 1500-1625

by David Beers Quinn

This book brings together a collection of the work of David Quinn, the preeminent authority on the early history of the discovery and colonization of America.

500 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

David Beers Quinn was an Irish historian who wrote extensively on the voyages of discovery and colonisation of America. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he graduated from Queen's University, Belfast in 1931. He then completed a PhD on the early Tudor administration in Ireland at King's College London. He subsequently spent five years as lecturer at University College, Southampton (now Southampton University). Returning Belfast in 1939 he taught Irish history.