Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction
Alan Taylor
Abstract
Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction presents the current scholarly understanding of the subject. During the past generation, historians have broadened that understanding by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flows of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas. Colonial America produced an unprecedented mixing of radically diverse peoples — African, European, and Indian — under stressful circumstances for all. The colonial intermingling of peoples, microbes, plants, and animals from different continents was unparalleled in speed and volume. Everyone had to adjust to a new world of unpredictable social and cultural hybrids that compromised and complicated the ambitious plans of empire-builders.
Keywords:
Jeffrey Amherst,
Charles II,
Benjamin Franklin,
Sir William Johnson,
Maps and mapping,
Francis Nicholson,
William Pitt,
river,
trade,
West Indies,
James Wolfe
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Nov 2012
- Print ISBN-13:
- 9780199766239
- Published online:
- Sep 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1093/actrade/9780199766239.001.0001
