Alan Taylor: 31 books
American Colonies
The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman...
The Civil War of 1812
American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants,...
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s...
Appointment in Arezzo
A friendship with Muriel Spark
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark’s life revealing her as she really was. Once, she commented sitting over a glass of chianti...
The Divided Ground
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman,...
by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.
by Michael Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry presents a new view of psychiatry, melding traditional biologic, neuro-, and descriptive psychiatry into a broad neuropsychiatric approach to diagnosis and treatment. The book relies on insights from basic neuroscience, neuropsychology, behavioral...
Film Mavericks in Action
New Hollywood, New Rhetoric, and Kenneth Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The book’s ambition is to uniquely yoke familiar histories of New Hollywood with aspects of critical theory that, since the 1950s, have embraced advances in the New Rhetoric as pioneered by literary theorist, philosopher, social analyst and educator Kenneth Burke (1897–1993). The study tracks...
The Southwold Railway 1879–1929
The Tale of a Suffolk Byway
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
A delightful example of one of East Anglia's minor railways: A 3ft gauge railway, single track, just over 8 miles long from Halesworth (connections to London) across the heathland and marshes of East Suffolk to the seaside resort and harbor of Southwold. This book collates the research and memories...
Descriptive Psychopathology
The Signs and Symptoms of Behavioral Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
In order to accurately describe and diagnose psychiatric illness, practitioners require in-depth knowledge of the signs and symptoms of behavioral disorders. Descriptive Psychopathology provides a broad review of the psychopathology of psychiatric illness, beyond the limitations of the DSM and ICD...
My Mai Tai
The Hawaiian Condo Capers
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
My Mai Tai is an adventure-comedy with a touch of spice and an element of mystery involving the humorous escapades of two feisty and fun-loving couples while vacationing in Hawaii. The story is based on a number of entertaining events personally experienced by the author. It presents a series of light...