American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)Penguin, 30 հլս, 2002 թ. - 544 էջ A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions 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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Colonizers 14001800 | 23 |
New Spain 15001600 | 50 |
The Spanish Frontier 15301700 | 67 |
Canada and Iroquoia 15001660 | 91 |
Part II | 115 |
Virginia 15701650 | 117 |
Chesapeake Colonies 16501750 | 138 |
New England 16001700 | 158 |
Puritans and Indians 16001700 | 187 |
The West Indies 16001700 | 204 |
Carolina 16701760 | 222 |
Middle Colonies 16001700 | 245 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 479 |
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