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Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction [#339]
Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction [#339]
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このトピックについて予備知識を持たない幅広い読者を対象に、植民地時代のアメリカに関する現在の学識をまとめた手ごろな概説書です。大西洋横断と大陸横断に重点を置き、物、人、植物、動物、資本、知識などの流れを通して、ヨーロッパ、アフリカ、そしてアフリカ大陸の相互交流の関係を分析します。
   

  • Concisely covers the colonial experience on a continental scale, including English, Dutch, French and Spanish colonies throughout North America
  • Highlights the encounters of native with colonial peoples
  • Focuses on the relationship of people to their environments
  • Examines slavery and freedom in different colonial empires

   
By long convention, "American history" began during the early seventeenth century along the Atlantic Seaboard with the English colonies at Jamestown in Virginia and Plymouth in New England. From that eastern origin, America supposedly expanded westward, reaching only the Appalachian mountains by the end of the colonial period. In this version of history, earlier Spanish and contemporary French settlements seemed irrelevant except as enemies that brought out the best in the English as they remade themselves into Americans. Indians appeared only as wild and primitive peoples engaged in an ultimately futile resistance to American destiny. And historians formerly treated African slaves in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of "free land." During the past generation, however, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America 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. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience.
 
American colonization derived from a global expansion of European exploration and commerce, beginning in the fifteenth century. In an Atlantic and global perspective, the English had to share the stage with the French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russians, each of whom created alternative Americas. By comparing the diverse colonies of rival empires, Taylor aims to recover what was truly distinctive about the English enterprise in North America. In particular, he intends to pay greater attention to slavery as central to the economy, culture, and political thought of the colonists and, by taking a "Continental approach," to restore the importance of native peoples to the colonial story. To adapt to the new land, the colonists needed the expertise, guidance, alliance, and trade of the Indians who dominated the interior. The new historical approach emphasizes the ability of the diverse natives to adapt to the newcomers and to compel concessions from them.
 
In sum, 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 in global history. Everyone had to adjust to a new world of unpredictable social and cultural hybrids that compromised and complicated the ambitious plans of empire-builders.

目次: 

List of illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Encounters
Chapter 2: New Spain
Chapter 3: New France
Chapter 4: Chesapeake colonies
Chapter 5: New England
Chapter 6: West Indies and Carolina
Chapter 7: British America
Chapter 8: Empires
Timeline
Further reading
Index

著者について: 

Alan Taylor is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the two time Pulitzer prize winning author of William Cooper's Town: Power and The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. He has also written Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic and The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199766239

著者: 
Alan Taylor
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168 ページ
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Paperback
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111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2012年11月
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Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction [#339]

Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction [#339]

Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction [#339]