The Unfinished Nation Brinkley
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MAIN THEMES

1. That the colonization of the Americas included a collision of European and Native American cultures that had been developing along very different lines for thousands of years.
2. How a variety of ambitions and impulses (political, personal, financial) moved individuals and nations to colonize the New World.
3. How the motives of the colonizers, and their experiences prior to immigrating, and their limited knowledge of the New World, shaped their attitudes toward Native American cultures.

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