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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
- Penguin History of the United States, Book 1
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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 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.
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This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Drawn from new sources, Alan Taylor's riveting narrative re-creates the events that inspired black Virginians, haunted slaveholders, and set the nation on a new and dangerous course.
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one of the best audiobooks I've read recently
- De D. Littman en 03-02-14
De: Alan Taylor
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King Philip's War
- The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
- De: Eric B. Schultz, Michael J. Tougias, Nathaniel Philbrick - foreword
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in general. Through a careful reconstruction of events, including first-person accounts, and by providing information on the exact locations of more than 50 battles, King Philip's War is useful as well as informative.
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Indian Good; White Man Bad
- De Gary M. Hale en 06-04-21
De: Eric B. Schultz, y otros
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783.
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
- De Buretto en 10-21-21
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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The Barbarous Years
- The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- De: Bernard Bailyn
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 26 h y 11 m
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Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.
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A feast for genealogy/history buffs
- De judithh en 07-21-16
De: Bernard Bailyn
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The Indian World of George Washington
- The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
- De: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 23 h y 17 m
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Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he returns them to their rightful place in the story of America's founding. The Indian World of George Washington spans decades of Native American leaders' interactions with Washington, from his early days as surveyor of Indian lands to his military career against both the French and the British to his presidency.
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A Washington hate book
- De EJ morris en 02-08-19
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The French and Indian War: 1660-1763
- The Drama of American History
- De: Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
- Narrado por: Jim Manchester
- Duración: 1 h y 44 m
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The French and Indian War: 1660-1763 covers much more than the few years during which the English and French fought over the division of the North American continent in one of the most neglected periods of American history. In this volume in the Drama of American History series, authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier trace how England’s other rivals for control of America were eliminated over this period until the only source of conflict left would be between the British and their own colonists.
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Great overview of a less-known series of conflicts
- De EmilyK en 06-24-15
De: Christopher Collier, y otros
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- De: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier - the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground - when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.
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Too PC
- De Eric en 07-24-13
De: Scott Weidensaul
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 21 h y 3 m
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Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England's dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates Rogers's life and his spectacular battles with breathtaking immediacy and meticulous accuracy...
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WOW!!!
- De Olaf the Black en 11-23-18
De: John F. Ross
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The Unknown American Revolution
- The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
- De: Gary B. Nash
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing listeners to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans and disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.
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wokeness as a theme for the American revolution
- De Phoenix Badger en 11-22-21
De: Gary B. Nash
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That Dark and Bloody River
- Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley
- De: Allan W. Eckert
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 35 h y 48 m
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They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair-pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation.
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Fascinating Look at a forgotten chapter of history
- De Chidwick en 07-25-19
De: Allan W. Eckert
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The War That Made America
- A Short History of the French and Indian War
- De: Fred Anderson
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That Made America, a four-part documentary about this epic conflict. Fred Anderson, the award-winning and critically acclaimed historian, has written the official tie-in to this exciting television event.
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A thorough and absorbing history
- De Michael en 03-15-10
De: Fred Anderson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre American Colonies: The Settling of North America
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- Preston Moore
- 09-17-20
good starting point for new colonialists
the book takes an annales approach to the topic, giving students a good feeling for the historiography and the cultural collision of colonization.
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- Brian
- 01-15-22
Thorough and Detailed
I had wanted to learn more about America in the early colonial days and this book did not disappoint. I appreciated the fact that the author showed a lot from the Native American side. Who they were, how they lived, and how colonialism impacted their way of life.
I wish I had read this a long time ago. A lot of stuff here that did not learn in history class. I will recommending this book to all my history-loving friends.
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- Tim Healy
- 02-10-19
Insightful
Wonderful introduction to the complexities of the many Indian cultures and effects of the varied European and African influences in the Americas. This book paints a broad picture of the melting pot that the New World truly is.
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- Jeffrey H. Jordan
- 06-06-22
Better to read I think.
I loved this book, but I'm likely going to return the audiobook and buy the hardcopy and "reread" it. It's encyclopedic in its scope and presentation, and therefore it's difficult to learn audibly from it. The narrator's voice is good, but the task is near impossible.
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- Joshie
- 06-17-22
Great, if long
A nice overview of the early days of North America. It’s well written and level headed. But it’s not exactly a page turner either.
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- Jeff
- 01-25-23
Excellent
A well balanced, highly informative narrative on early colonialism and its effects on indigenous people and the rise of American Communities.
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- cwesleyg
- 08-15-19
Very informative
Very well assembled and thorough. Narrator is a bit dry, but well performed. Will be listening to more of this series.
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- Tascha F.
- 08-22-20
Essential reading. Great performance.
My one regret about this book is that I didn't read it 19 years ago when it came out...or at least 4 years ago when it came out on Audiobook. There is a certain repetition, which I assume is so professors can assign chapters on different periods while still giving students context. However, these repetitions also make clear the patterns of power and domination so that after specific details fade from one's memory, the historical patterns remain.
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- T_S_shops
- 11-23-21
The why behind different trajectories of colonies
It should be read twice and taught in schools. It is the old principle of supply and demand played out in so many ways amongst different groups of people. Learn what made the colonies in New England, the South, the Midwest, the Southwest and the Pacific so different in their economies, religious denominations, and governance.
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- Richard Pence
- 09-01-16
A fascinating story
A comprehensive and ungloryfied overview of the roles of all the players in the European colonization of North America. An emphasis is place on the impact of the colonization on the native people of North America. A fascinating and poignant story.
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