Title: Melting Pot
Product review: I found this to be a tough read and somewhat boring. I bought this book due to an interest in this time period and it does give facts about research in this period but is not really a history per say. The lack of material regarding colonial United States was surprising to me. Most history books deal with the initial founding of an area and then jump to the Revolutionary War. If you are looking more for a developing history rather than facts I would recommend Russell Shorto's, Island at the Center of the World, but that only takes you to the beginning of the 18th Century. Finding material from 1700-1770 is are rare unexplored nitch in time. You will find the Anglicanization of the America's interesting and it's clash with the Dutch culture that originally settled this area.
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