American Colonies: The Settling of
North America (The Penguin History
of the United States, Volume1) (Hist
of the USA) by Alan Taylor
Sweeping Overview Of American Colonization
With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial
history by examining the many cultures that helped make America.
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.

Compelling, readable, and fresh, American Colonies is perhaps the most
brilliant piece of synthesis in recent American historical writing. (Phillip J.
Deloria, associate professor of history and American culture, University of
Michigan)
Personal Review: American Colonies: The Settling of North
America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1)
(Hist of the USA) by Alan Taylor
There are already several good reviews on this book, so I will only suggest
reading the following books on the USA in addition to Taylor's: A) Dealing
with constitutional and political ideas: 1) Constitutional History of the
American Revolution by John Phillip Reid; 2) "America's Constitution: A
Biography" by Akhil Reed Amar; 3) "Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and
Hamilton Wrote The Federalist, Defined the Constitution, and Made
Democracy Safe for the World" by Michael Meyerson; and 4) Lincoln's
Constitution by Daniel A. Farber. B) Other books chosen with an approach
historically impressionistic: 5) "The Death Penalty", by Stuart Banner; 6)
"The Churching Of America, 1776-2005: Winners And Losers In Our
Religious Economy" by Roger Finke and Rodney Stark; and 7) "Battle cry
of freedom. The Civil War Era" by James M. McPherson.
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