![]() ![]() "The colonial intermingling of peoples-and of microbes, plants, and animals from different continents-was unparalleled in speed and volume in global history," he writes. ![]() He covers settlement and conquest from Canada to Mexico, and from the West Indies and mainland colonies to the Pacific islands. Beginning with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Straits 15 millennia ago, Taylor lays out the complicated road map of ownership, occupation and competition involving the Native Americans, African slaves and Spanish, Dutch, French and English colonists. ![]() First in Viking's new five-volume series the Penguin History of the United States, edited by noted Columbia historian Eric Foner ( Reconstruction), this book by Pulitzer Prize–winner Taylor ( William Cooper's Town) challenges traditional Anglocentric interpretations of colonial history by focusing more evenly on the myriad influences on North America's development. ![]()
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