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. American Colonies: The Settling of North America Penguin History of the United States, Book 1 By: Alan Taylor Narrated by: Bob Souer Series: The Penguin History of the United States, Book 1 Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins Release date: 04-26-16 Language: English 420 ratings Regular price: 34. 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 the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial. 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. American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States Series) Audio CD CD, Maby Alan Taylor (Author) 943 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 15.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 12.27 - 40.02 Other new, used and collectible from 2. 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. With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. First in Viking's new five-volume series the Penguin History of the United States, edited by noted Columbia.

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