In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss. 1 Paperback Jby Alan Taylor (Author), Eric Foner (Series Editor) 948 ratings Part of: The Penguin History of the United States (3 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 15.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. Alan Taylor American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. The title itself, American Colonies instead of Colonial America, hints at this plurality. of Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the late fifteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast. American Colonies: The Settling of North America.
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