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In american colonies, historian alan taylor has created an easily accessible yet highly informative overview of the crucial first era of the history of north america. From the siberian migrations across the bering strait fifteen thousand years ago and the european expeditions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the. American colonies by alan taylor penguin random house canada. Publication date 2001 topics history publisher new york. Coopers town, that approach provides only a painfully limited picture of colonial life. Born and raised in maine, alan taylor teaches american and canadian history at the university of virginia. In the first chapter, he begins by mentioning the precolumbian era in 14th up to the 16th century.
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