american colony
PENGUIN BOOKS
AMERICAN COLONIES
Alan Taylor’s previous books include William Cooper’s Town: Power and
Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, which won the 1996
Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for history. He is a professor of history at the
University of California at Davis. American Colonies is the first volume in the
Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, award-winning author o f Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution and the DeWitt Clinton
Professor of History at Columbia University.
Booklist Selection, Best Books of 2001
Praise for American Colonies
“Drawing on the latest scholarship, Taylor expands our understanding of our own history in this comprehensive and exciting book. Full of surprising revelations, this superb book is history at its best.”
—BookPage
“A balanced synthesis of recent scholarship. … Alan Taylor expertly weaves together the arguments and evidence of dozens of historians and anthropologists … plac[ing] the familiar themes of early American history within a broad context created by the intersection of the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
[Taylor’s] strategy allows him to highlight the histories of peoples and places neglected in accounts of colonial North America. More than just a formidable work of historical synthesis, American Colonies provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“At long last, we have an overview of colonial North America that addresses its full geographic, international, and multicultural sweep. In American Colonies, Alan
Taylor transcends the heroic saga of freedom-loving Englishmen clustered along the Atlantic coast with a full-blown narrative that extends from the continent’s earliest inhabitants through Christian-Muslim interactions in fifteenth-century
Africa and Europe to the onset of the American Revolution and Captain Cook’s
Pacific
AMERICAN COLONIES
Alan Taylor’s previous books include William Cooper’s Town: Power and
Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, which won the 1996
Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for history. He is a professor of history at the
University of California at Davis. American Colonies is the first volume in the
Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, award-winning author o f Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution and the DeWitt Clinton
Professor of History at Columbia University.
Booklist Selection, Best Books of 2001
Praise for American Colonies
“Drawing on the latest scholarship, Taylor expands our understanding of our own history in this comprehensive and exciting book. Full of surprising revelations, this superb book is history at its best.”
—BookPage
“A balanced synthesis of recent scholarship. … Alan Taylor expertly weaves together the arguments and evidence of dozens of historians and anthropologists … plac[ing] the familiar themes of early American history within a broad context created by the intersection of the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
[Taylor’s] strategy allows him to highlight the histories of peoples and places neglected in accounts of colonial North America. More than just a formidable work of historical synthesis, American Colonies provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“At long last, we have an overview of colonial North America that addresses its full geographic, international, and multicultural sweep. In American Colonies, Alan
Taylor transcends the heroic saga of freedom-loving Englishmen clustered along the Atlantic coast with a full-blown narrative that extends from the continent’s earliest inhabitants through Christian-Muslim interactions in fifteenth-century
Africa and Europe to the onset of the American Revolution and Captain Cook’s
Pacific