Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The colonization of North America, 1492-1783

The colonization of North America, 1492-1783

Eugene Bolton, Herbert

Paperback

General European HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9353709393
ISBN13: 9789353709396
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 630
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
From Columbus's first landfall to Yorktown, North America is remade in violence, trade, faith, and law. History starts with contested shores. Herbert Eugene Bolton, a leading interpreter of the Spanish borderlands history, offers a clear, panoramic early america history survey spanning north america 1492-1783. This colonial american history book traces european colonization of america across the atlantic world history of competing crowns and overlapping frontiers: the french spanish british rivalry for rivers, forts, and markets; the shaping pressures of the thirteen colonies era; and the complex, often tragic realities of native american colonial relations. Bolton's strength is range without haze, moving from imperial policy and exploration to settlement patterns and borderland diplomacy, creating a complete colonial history that shows how local struggles fed continental change and, ultimately, revolution. By keeping Spain and France in frame, Bolton anticipates modern scholarship on a continental past, showing how missions, trade networks, and shifting alliances linked coasts, interior valleys, and boardrooms, and why maps in Europe rarely matched lived realities. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Read it as a rigorous college history textbook reference, as focused ap us history reading, or as a classic work of interpretation that helped broaden American history beyond the British Atlantic. For casual readers it is a coherent narrative; for collectors it is a landmark in historical writing.

Also in

General United States History

View All