Download or read book Settlements in the Americas written by University of Maryland, College Park. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and published by Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The settlements described by these papers are important because, to their settlers, the enterprises were as vast as could be imagined at the time - and were in many cases life-consuming. Many of the essays give poignant witness to the courage and persistence shown by New World settlers.