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'''''American Colonies''''' is a book about early [[History of the United States|American history]] by [[Alan Taylor (historian)|Alan Taylor]], first published on November 12, 2001, by [[Viking Press]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2001-09-01|title=American Colonies|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alan-taylor/american-colonies/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-13|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|archive-date=October 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211014042645/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alan-taylor/american-colonies/}}</ref> It is the first volume of the ''Penguin History of the United States''.
The book is divided into three major parts: "Encounters", "Colonies", and "Empires".<ref name="jah">{{Cite journal|last=Henretta|first=James A.|author-link=James Henretta|date=December 2002|title=American Colonies|journal=[[The Journal of American History]]|volume=89|issue=3|pages=1019–1020|doi=10.2307/3092359}}</ref> These sections discuss, respectively, the colonial encounter between European settlers and the Indigenous peoples in North America, including through colonial projects such as [[New Spain]]; colonies such as the [[New England Colonies]] and the [[province of Carolina]]; and imperial domains including [[New France]] and [[British America]].<ref name="jah" /> ''American Colonies'' rejects [[American exceptionalism]], focusing on [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]] and the displacement and [[Population history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas|depopulation of Indigenous peoples]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Daniel Blake|date=2001|title=Review of ''American Colonies''|journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society|volume=99|issue=4|pages=405–407|issn=0023-0243|jstor=23384806}}</ref> It employs the methods of [[social history]] and [[environmental history]], among other approaches.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dowd|first=Gregory Evans|date=2003|title=Review of ''American Colonies''|journal=[[The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography]]|volume=127|issue=1|pages=106–109|issn=0031-4587|jstor=20093604}}</ref>
[[Andrew Cayton]] describes the book as a "balanced synthesis" of a trend in historical scholarship emphasizing the pluralism and diversity of colonial-era North America, a place in which Indigenous people of the Americas, enslaved Africans, as well as Europeans, created novel social arrangements.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cayton|first=Andrew R. L.|author-link=Andrew Cayton|date=2001-12-02|title=The Way We Were|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/the-way-we-were.html|access-date=2021-10-14|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409201259/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/the-way-we-were.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A starred review in [[Publishers Weekly|''Publishers Weekly'']] likewise noted that ''American Colonies'' "challenges traditional Anglocentric interpretations of colonial history by focusing more evenly on the myriad influences on North America's development".<ref>{{Cite web|title=American Colonies|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-670-87282-4|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-13|website=[[Publishers Weekly]]|archive-date=September 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930190242/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-670-87282-4}}</ref> Osita Nwanevu, in a retrospective review of ''American Colonies'' along with Taylor's later works ''American Revolutions'' and ''American Republics'', noted that ''American Colonies'' is organized in a more conventional, chronological manner than the other two, which focus on themes.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nwanevu|first=Osita|date=2021-08-24|title=The Incoherence of American History|work=[[The New Republic]]|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/163096/incoherence-us-history-american-colonies-review|access-date=2021-10-14|issn=0028-6583|archive-date=October 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006112227/https://newrepublic.com/article/163096/incoherence-us-history-american-colonies-review|url-status=live}}</ref>
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