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Alan Taylor

Disciplines:
american history
colonial
journalism/pulitzer
higher education/uc davis

Summary

American historian at UC Davis who has won two Pulitzer Prizes — William Cooper's Town and The Internal Enemy — and whose American Colonies provides the most comprehensive single-volume history of colonial American history, including the Spanish, French, and British colonies.

Core Contribution

Provides the most geographically and culturally comprehensive account of early American history — American Colonies' inclusion of French, Spanish, and Native American perspectives alongside the British colonial story demonstrates that 'American history' cannot be reduced to the thirteen colonies.

Notable Works & Achievements

William Cooper's Town

American Colonies

The Internal Enemy

Historical Influences

Bailyn Atlantic history tradition

Intellectual Lineage

MassachusettsUC Davis

Contemporaries & Peers

Bailyn Wood

Minds Influenced

Colonial American history History 102

Intellectual Posterity

William Cooper's Town American Colonies The Internal Enemy

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