Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. Bross's Future History brings a much-needed and eye-opening global global perspective to the study of seventeenth-century English writing, reminding us that America and Asia alike were part of a proto-imperial English vision whose imagined future rested on present violence. This book will change the way scholars across disciplines understand early modern archives and spaces.