American Colonies, Alan Taylor
American Colonies, Alan Taylor
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American Colonies
The Settling of North America

Author: Alan Taylor

Narrator: Bob Souer

Unabridged: 21 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/26/2016


Synopsis

In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, 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 millennia 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.

About Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor is the author of William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for American History and The Internal Enemy, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for American History. Taylor is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Fred on December 30, 2010

This would be excellent history except that the narrative is continually interrupted by politically correct qualifications and adjustments. This habit is extremely annoying, particularly when one is reading for edification, not moral ammunition. Steve Sailer once said: "Besides being useful (in all......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on September 13, 2011

Taylor does a wonderful job of covering the breath and depth of the development of the colonial period in North America (British, French, Spanish and even Russian), with a strong emphasis on economic drivers that impacted cultural differences in each colony. (Warning, I'm an anthropologist & histori......more