American Colonies
by Alan Taylor, Eric Foner (Series edited by)
ISBN-10: 0142002100
ISBN-13: 9780142002100
$22.00
Book Specs
UK-B Format Paperback
Penguin Books
Published on
Jul 30, 2002
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
6.10x1.00x9.20 Inches
Weight
1.23 Pounds
About the Book
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.