Carla Pestana

Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The World of Plymouth Plantation; The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire; Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World; and The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661.