provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. 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. American Colonies Alan Taylor Questions Answers, but end up in harmful downloads. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents an engaging overview of the best of this new scholarship.

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. 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.

In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, 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 milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast. 1 Paperback Jby Alan Taylor (Author), Eric Foner (Series Editor) 951 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. A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol.

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