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. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Coloniesreveals 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. With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Estados Unidos - Historia - 1600-1775 (Época colonial) United States. A multicultural, multinational history of.

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provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity.Saved in: Bibliographic Details Author / Creator: 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. American Colonies (English, Paperback, Taylor Alan) Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Genre: History ISBN: 9780142002100. The author is successful in relating the 16 revolts in Northern America against the Spanish to natives’ dissatisfactions of the religions and economic systems of colonizers. 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. Taylor identifies establishment of Christianity, revolts, and dominance of the colonizers. 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. A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions

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