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American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1 Paperback - 2002

by Alan Taylor

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"American Colonies" reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor creates a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss.

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  • Title American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1
  • Author Alan Taylor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date July 2002
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 243083
  • ISBN 9780142002100 / 0142002100
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Colonial period,
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.2

Summary

With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. 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. 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. 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.

From the publisher

Alan Taylor’s books include William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for history and the Bancroft Prize in American History. He is a professor of history at the University of California at Davis.

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"Compelling, readable, and fresh, American Colonies is perhaps the most brilliant piece of synthesis in recent American historical writing." —Phillip J. Deloria, associate professor of history and American culture, University of Michigan



 

About the author

Alan Taylor's books include William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for history and the Bancroft Prize in American History; The Internal Enemy, also awarded the Pultizer Prize; The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution. Taylor holds the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History at the University of Virginia.

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