James H. Merrell
Colin Calloway's grand synthesis of the experience of Indians and other Americans before 1800 is exceptional in its breadth of vision. Taking as his canvas the entire North American continent—examining everything from war and disease to trade and sex, from clothes and houses to foods and cures—he nonetheless never loses sight of the individual, human story, the vivid encounter or striking incident that brings the past to life.
— James H. Merrell, Vassar College
Gregory E. Dowd
I cannot think of another work that sets out to accomplish what Colin Calloway has achieved. New Worlds for All stands poised to become the most successful synthesis of North American ethnohistory from contact to the early national period.
— Gregory E. Dowd, University of Notre Dame
Daniel K. Richter
Colin Calloway charts a sensible middle way between the gross generalizations and the random trivia that have long dominated discussions of the influences that Native Americans and Europeans exerted on one another. Wearing its vast research lightly, New Worlds for All provides an excellent introduction to recent scholarship on cultural interaction in early America.
— Daniel K. Richter, Dickinson College
Peter C. Mancall
The European colonization of North America entailed not the discovery of a 'New World' but the creation of multiple 'new worlds.' Colin Calloway is to be congratulated for synthesizing an enormous body of scholarship and offering this accessible explanation of the emergence of a multicultural America.
— Peter C. Mancall, University of Kansas
