ALAN D. TAYLOR

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American Colonies.With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss.

PRÓLOGO DE EMMA THOMPSONEdición original de Alan TaylorHarry Potter y el misterio del príncipe.Día uno.Gracias a Dios que pude enfundarme en la túnica sin forzar visiblemente las costuras.Alan Rickman es uno de los actores mas queridos y polifaceticos de todos los tiempos. Sus aires de dignidad, su voz penetrante y el ingenio que aportaba a cada uno de sus papeles continua cautivando a la audiencia hoy en dia, tal como muestran sus actuaciones como el villano Hans Gruber en la pelicula La jungla de cristal o su personificacion del Profesor Severus Snape en la saga Harry Potter, entre muchos otros roles. Sin embargo, la capacidad de Rickman no se limitaba a sus interpretaciones. Sus diarios detallan lo extraordinario y lo ordinario de un modo anecdotico, indiscreto, ingenioso e incluso cotilla, aunque siempre partiendo de la mas absoluta sinceridad. Rickman nos traslada al interior de su casa, a viajes con amigos por todo el mundo y a los platos de peliculas y obras de teatro que van desde Sentido y sensibilidad hasta Vidas privadas, pasando por la serie Harry Potter y la ultima pelicula que dirigio, Un pequeño caos.

A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn 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 examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss."Formidable . . . provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." -The New York Times Book Review

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 Sparks life revealing her as she really was. Once, she commented sitting over a glass of chianti at the kitchen table, that she was upset that the academic whom she had appointed her official biographer did not appear to think that she had ever cracked a joke in her life. Alan Taylor here sets the record straight about this and many other things. With sources ranging from notebooks kept from his very first encounter with Muriel and the hundreds of letters they exchanged over the years, this is an invaluable portrait of one of Edinburghs premiere novelists. The book was published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Muriels birth in 2018.