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

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

• Major Problems in American Colonial History (Major Problems in American History Series)
• Colonial North America and the Atlantic World: A History in Documents
• American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
• A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 (The Penguin History of the United States)
• The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
• Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave
• American Slavery, American Freedom
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)
• American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
• Half Slave and Half Free, Revised Edition: The Roots of Civil War