Bibliograph

The barbarous years, the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675, Bernard Bailyn

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The barbarous years, the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675, Bernard Bailyn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The barbarous years

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

773667555

Responsibility statement

Bernard Bailyn

Sub title

the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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