When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? Wha

In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience. He focuses on the transatla

Familiar figures -- missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, prospectors, gunfighters, cowboys, and Indians -- appear in these pages. So do renowned individu

North American indigenous literature reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales. In this

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? Wha