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A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec Paperback – October 1, 1995

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Tells the early history of North America through the points of view of John Smith, Samuel Champlain, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Peter Stuyvesant, and William Penn

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley Trade; First Paperback Edition (October 1, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 532 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0425149560
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425149560
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.04 x 1.41 x 9 inches

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Mike

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2013

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This is not a normal history book, but a series of biographies on prominent North American colonists. And instead of each biography being written like a matter-of-fact history, they're written as narratives. So it feels like you're reading fiction short stories, but each one is historically accurate. I liked how in some chapters the author gives background information and includes other groups or individuals as supporting characters, e.g. the chapter on William Bradford is also a history of the Pilgrims, some of their prominent leaders, as well as Squanto and other Indians they encounter. The book features both British and French colonists, and the last 3 chapters focus on the French and Indian War, the climax of colonial history before you get into the Revolutionary period.
The colonists featured are:
-John Smith
-Samuel de Champlain
-William Bradford
-John Winthrop
-Saint Jean de Brebeuf
-Peter Stuyvesant
-Nathanial Bacon
-Louis de Buade Comte de Frontenac
-William Penn
-Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
-There are also 2 chapters on the French and Indian War that have so many people in them that it's hard to call them biographies.

I gave it 4 stars because it's very good, but not a definitive work. For the first time I saw colonial history through the eyes of other human beings, not just as facts listed on a page. I appreciated the British-French mix even though I wasn't expecting it, and all in all it gave me a deeper and more personal understanding of colonial history.

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Mickey Yurkevicz

best history book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2007

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I love history books and this one is the best. Let's not quibble about details of accuracy; the author understands that any history is a creation. He understands something much more important and that is the constancy of human nature and the horrible dualism of a creature which must pretend it is an angel while acting like the devil.

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JChen

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2021

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A very pompous, inaccurate "history" of the east coast colonies of North America. Trash.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2017

This is a good book.

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Keith C.

Great Narrative of the Colonial Period

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2019

Its very difficult to find a good narrative of colonial America in one volume, but this is the best that I found in 27 years teaching US History.
Its too bad that this book isn't lining the shelves of Barnes and Noble as there are plenty of really terrible books there instead - such as the anti-American Howard Zinn reader

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Astronomere

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 13, 2014

I hated this book and tore it to pieces before throwing it away. The author holds the scholarly subject of history in very low regard, but would rather spout self-serving rhetoric and overconfident unsupported speculation about what various historical figures were thinking. The guy is just a wad trying to draw attention to his own writing skills; how flowery and eloquent his otherwise empty prose is.

This is what a history of colonial America would look like if TMZ handled it.

If the guy had imaginative creativity he could probably write superlative fiction and I'll bet I would like it, but no - he had to play a sorry game with my favorite subject: history.

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Taylor Stoermer

Good read, Not-so-good history

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2002

Arthur Quinn's goal -- to give the first 150 years of American colonial history the sweeping treatment the topic deserves -- is laudable. Quinn's attempt, unfortunately, falls far short of that goal. Simply put, the work just isn't a very good history book. Historians, professional and armchair, revel in linear detail like dates and places, and want to be certain that they are getting the whole picture. Quinn isn't bothered by such things, possibly because they might get in the way of the story he's trying to tell. Aside from his occasional, awkward forays into flights of literary greatness that, more often than not, just fall into tortured prose, Quinn's indifference to dates and some events is a fatal flaw in a work of history. For example, he completely ignores the Mayflower Compact (although we learn a great deal else about the Pilgrims), one of the most important documents in early American history, and has nothing to say of the death of Wolfe at Quebec, along with Montcalm. Quinn is so indifferent to noting months and years that a reader often loses track of where the story is in time. Those exclusions, and others like them, seriously weaken the book.
In the end, a reader should approach this book as an outline, a primer perhaps, that covers a compelling expanse of our past, and take it upon her or himself to fill in the gaps. For those readers who prefer narrative to history, then this book should be enough. It is full of fascinating, fatally flawed characters (and lots and lots of native Americans who like to eat those characters). For readers looking for a more detailed, textured understanding of our founding, this is a decent place to start -- if Quinn's writing style doesn't drive you crazy within the first 12 pages -- because it is organized decently and many highlights are there, but keep in mind that it is only a start.

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alex weger

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Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 30, 2017

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Ich habe mich mit dem Thema der Kolonialisierung Nordamerikas beruflich und privat lange und intensiv befasst. Es gibt - erstaunlicherweise - kaum Bücher, die das Wirken Samuel de Champlains, des Gründers von Quebec, detailliert beschreiben (im Gegensatz zu allen anderen Kolonialgründungen (Jamestown, Plimoth Plantation, etc). Deswegen war ich in diesem Fall besonders gespannt; umso gründlicher wurde ich enttäuscht: geschrieben in einem teils "schwärmerischen" Stil, in dem der scheinbar gelungenen Formulierung immer der Vorzug vor harten Fakten gegeben wird, faktisch teils ungenau bis beinahe falsch, ohne Belege irgendeiner Art.
Definitiv nicht zu empfehlen, wenn man gründlich fundierte historische Fakten sucht.

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