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Gary B. Nash et al's Part I of The American People

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the more civilized, or presumably civilized, nations take it upon themselves to control and develop other nations. We have seen this demonstrated time and time again, and perhaps no more  aggressively than here in America as our forefathers left Europe to find freedom in a new land that they would control and develop. In "The American People" by Gary B.  Nash et al. we gain many different insights into the colonizing of this land. In the following paper we examine some of the perspectives and insights offered by Nash et  al. in the first section of the book titled "A Colonizing People, 1492-1776." A Colonizing People Nash et al.s presentation of the colonizing people of America is incredibly  thorough, but brief at the same time. This is due to the fact that a great deal of information is presented in a relatively small space. For example, this entire  section is broken down into five separate sections: Three Worlds Meet, Colonizing a Continent, Mastering the New World, The Maturing of Colonial Society, and Bursting the Colonial Bonds. In light  of this fact there is a great deal of information that is presented in very brief outline. Though brief, in some respects, the overall content provides a good overview  of the basic foundations of colonizing and from the perspective of this particular writer there were no surprises in terms of what was presented. The information, though perhaps not overtly  generally known to many people, was consistent with information this writer previously possessed. In truth, nothing really comes as a surprise to this reader in terms of the motives, needs,  greed, or actions of the early Americans, or any Americans for that matter. There is an inherently devious side to the people of this land, a side that insists that