Invading America: The English Assault on the New World, 1497-1630

A fascinating examination of why England failed for so long to colonize North America, in contrast to Spain's rapid conquest farther south.

Within a generation of Columbus's first landfall in the Caribbean, Spain ruled an empire in central and south America many times the size of the home country. In stark contrast, after a century of struggle, and numerous disasters, English colonizing efforts farther north had succeeded in settling the banks of one waterway and the littoral of several bay...