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Colonial America : a very short introduction  Cover Image Book Book

Colonial America : a very short introduction / Alan Taylor.

Summary:

"Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americans through the flow of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas. Alan Taylor presents an engaging overview of this new scholarship, showing that American colonization derived from a global expansion of European exploration and commerce that began in the fifteenth century. The English had to share the stage with French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russians, each of whom created alternative Americas. Taylor also focuses on slavery as central to the economy, culture, and political thought of the colonists and on the importance of native peoples to the colonial story. This book describes an intermingling of cultures and of microbes, plants, and animals from different continents that was unparalleled in global history."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780199766239 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 0199766231 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • Physical Description: xv, 151 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, ©2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-145) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction : Maps -- Encounters -- New Spain -- New France -- Chesapeake colonies -- New England -- West Indies and Carolina -- British America -- Empires.
Subject: North America > History.
Europe > Colonies > America > History.
Indians of North America > History.
North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Indians of North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library E 45 .T39 2013 30775305484975 General Collection Available -


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