American Colonies : The Settlement of North America to 1800 - Hardcover

Book 1 of 3: The Penguin History of the United States

TAYLOR, ALAN

  • 4.08 out of 5 stars
    4,701 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780713995886: American Colonies : The Settlement of North America to 1800
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0713995882 ISBN 13: 9780713995886
Publisher: Gardners Books, 2002

Synopsis

AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North America could be perceived.

Dropping the usual Anglocentric description of North America's fate, Taylor brilliantly conveys the far more vivid and startling story of the competing interests--Spanish, French, English, Native, Russian--that over the centuries shaped and reshaped both the continent and its 'suburbs' in the Caribbean and the Pacific. It is one of the greatest of all human stories.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Alan Taylor is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. His last book was William Cooper's Town which won both the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize in American History.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Gardners Books
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0713995882
ISBN 13 
9780713995886
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
544
Rating
  • 4.08 out of 5 stars
    4,701 ratings by Goodreads

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780142002100: American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0142002100 ISBN 13:  9780142002100
Publisher: Penguin Books, 2002
Softcover