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

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A multicultural, multinational history of colonial The united states from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions

In the first volume within the Penguin History of the USA, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make The united states, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across all of the continent, all of the way to the Pacific coast.

Transcending the standard 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, or even Russia within the colonization of North The united states. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine all of the continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period within the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon state of the art scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss.

“Formidable . . . provokes us to contemplate the ways by which residents of North The united states have dealt with diversity.” –The New York Times Book Review

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