
American Colonies
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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.
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.
"Formidable . . . provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." -The New York Times Book Review
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Part I. Encounters 1. Natives, 13,000 B.C.-A.D. 1492 2. Colonizers, 1400-1800 3. New Spain, 1500-1600 4. The Spanish Frontier, 1530-1700 5. Canada and Iroquoia, 1500-1660
Part II. Encounters 6. Virginia, 1570-1650 7. Chesapeake Colonies, 1650-1750 8. New England, 1600-1700 9. Puritans and Indians, 1600-1700 10. The West Indies, 1600-1700 11. Carolina, 1670-1760 12. Middle Colonies, 1600-1700
Part III. Empires 13. Revolutions, 1685-1730 14. The Atlantic, 1700-80 15. Awakenings, 1700-75 16. French America, 1650-1750 17. The Great Plains, 1680-1800 18. Imperial Wars and Crisis, 1739-75 19. The Pacific, 1760-1820
Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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