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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.

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"Compelling, readable, and fresh, American Coloniesis perhaps the most brilliant piece of synthesis in recent American historical writing." Phillip J. Deloria, associate professor of history and American culture, University of Michigan

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j"Formidable...provokes us to contemplate teh ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." --The New York Times Book Review
"A superb overview of colonial America." -- Christian Science Monitor
"Compelling, readable, and fresh, American Coloniesis perhaps the most brilliant piece of synthesis in recent American historical writing." Phillip J. Deloria, associate professor of history and American culture, University of Michigan"

"Formidable...provokes us to contemplate teh ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." --The New York Times Book Review
"A superb overview of colonial America." -- Christian Science Monitor
"Compelling, readable, and fresh, American Coloniesis perhaps the most brilliant piece of synthesis in recent American historical writing." Phillip J. Deloria, associate professor of history and American culture, University of Michigan"

"Formidable...provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." -The New York Times Book Review

"A superb overview of colonial America." -Christian Science Monitor

"Compelling, readable, and fresh, American Colonies is perhaps the most brilliant piece of synthesis in recent American historical writing." --Phillip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture and History at the University of Michigan

"Even the serious student of history will find a great deal of previously obscure information. The book offers a balanced understanding of the diverse peoples and forces that converged on this continent and influenced the course of American history." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Crammed full of fascinating material uncovered by historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists in the past half-century." --Newsday
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This history begins with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent, with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of modern North America could be perceived. The author conveys the story of competing interests that shaped and reshaped the continent and its "suburbs" in the Caribbean and the Pacific over the centuries. North America's fate is viewed through the eyes of the Spanish, French, English, Natives and Russians.

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  • PublisherAllen Lane
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0713995882
  • ISBN 13 9780713995886
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages544
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