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

By: Alan Taylor

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: July 2002

Seller ID: 242117

ISBN: 0142002100

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. 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, ...
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