![]() ![]() ![]() 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. He has won several awards and accolades for his work, including two Pulitzer prizes. ![]() 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. Taylor is an American historian who specializes in colonial North America, the American Revolution and early republic, pre-Confederation Canada, and the American West. 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. With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. ![]() "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2001"- T.p. United States - History - Colonial period, ca. ![]()
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