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A multicultural; multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn 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