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- In the final analysis, Alan Taylor's American Colonies is nothing short of a brilliant synthesis of recent scholarship on early America. Given its convincing underlying thesis and broad compara‐tive perspective, however, it is also much more than that.
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Nov 12, 2001 · Pulitzer-winner Taylor (History/Univ. of California, Davis; William Cooper’s Town, 1999, etc.) sets out to construct a truer history by righting the wrongs of exclusion. Indians arrived in the continent over 12,000 years ago, so their story is given greater length.
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Aug 24, 2021 · In American Revolutions, Taylor challenges that narrative and nearly two and a half centuries’ worth of rocky schoolhouse fables with a thorough and complex examination of the Revolutionary...
Sep 6, 2016 · In 2001 Alan Taylor, one of America’s most distinguished historians and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, published a well-received book entitled “American Colonies,” which he regarded as “a half...
Jan 1, 2001 · Alan Taylor, Eric Foner (Series Editor) 4.07. 4,278 ratings294 reviews. 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.
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Dec 2, 2001 · Alan Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at the University of California at Davis, expertly weaves together the arguments and evidence of dozens of historians and...
In American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Alan Taylor takes a fresh and unique historical perspective by concentrating on the contributions, travails and interrelationships of the Native American peoples and enslaved Africans in the colonization of North America.
Jul 30, 2002 · 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...
