New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

Colin G. Calloway’s New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (2013) explains how, in the three centuries following Columbus’s arrival in 1492, Europeans and Indigenous Americans remade their world as well as themselves. It focuses on encounters and developments in regions that comprise the present-day United States. Originally published in 1991, the book’s second edition incorporates nearly two decades of new scholarship.

Calloway is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He has published a number of award-winning books, including One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (2003) and The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2006).

A Note on Language: The term “Indigenous Americans” is used throughout this guide to refer to the various peoples (and their descendants) who inhabited North America prior to European contact. Calloway’s use of the term “Indian” is preserved in direct quotations from the text.

Summary

New Worlds for All is not a traditional narrative. Calloway describes the book as a “collection of essays” and a “series of impressions” designed to show “how things could not have been the way they were without the interaction of Indian and European peoples in America” (xiii).