Prominent historian Alan Taylpr updates and summarizes scholarly advancements in the historiography of American colonialism in this short essay.
Alan Taylor is professor of history at the University of California at Davis, and the author of William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize for American History. His most recent book is The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Indian Allies and Irish Rebels (2010).
