The barbarous years : the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675 / Bernard Bailyn.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: xv, 614 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0394515706
- 9780394515700
- The barbarous years : the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilisations, 1600-1675
- 973.2 23
- E191 .B35 2012
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"This is a Borzoi Book -- T.p. verso.".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-596) and index.
Foundations. -- The Americans -- Conquest: the Europeans -- Death on a coastal fringe -- The "hammerours" regime -- Recruitment, expansion, and transformation -- "A flood, a flood of bloud" -- Terra-Maria -- The Chesapeake's new world -- The Dutch farrago -- Carnage and civility in a developing hub of commerce -- Swedes, Finns, and the passion of Pieter Plockhoy -- God's conventicle, Bradford's lamentation -- The New-English Sionists: fault lines, diversity, and persecution -- Abrasions, utopians, and holy war -- Defiance and disarray -- Emergence -- The British Americans.
From an acclaimed historian of early America, a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to the British colonies of North America and their involvements with each other and the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.
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