Future History: Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British WritingsFuture History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and