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"Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americans through the flow of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas. Alan Taylor presents an engaging overview of this new scholarship, showing that American colonization derived from a global expansion of European exploration and commerce that began in the fifteenth century. The English had to share the stage with French, Spanish, show more Dutch, and Russians, each of whom created alternative Americas. Taylor also focuses on slavery as central to the economy, culture, and political thought of the colonists and on the importance of native peoples to the colonial story. This book describes an intermingling of cultures and of microbes, plants, and animals from different continents that was unparalleled in global history."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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Alan Taylor has twice won the Pulitzer Prize in History, most recently for The Internal Enemy, also a National Book Award finalist. He is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville.
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- Canonical title
- Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction
- Original publication date
- 2012
- First words
- In 1721 at Charles Town (now Charleston) in South Carolina, the colonial governor, Sir Francis Nicholson, met a visiting delegation of Indian chiefs from villages in the Piedmont.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ultimately, the Americans succeeded and exceeded the British as the predominant colonizers of North America.
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- Kamensky, Jane; Mancall, Peter C.
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