American Colonies: The Settling of North America

In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, 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 millennia 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 Ame...