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

Folger bibliographic ID: 271084
Folger call number: E191 .B35 2012
Folger holdings ID: 357219

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

Edition

1st ed

General notes

"This is a Borzoi Book "-- Title page verso Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Pt. 1: Foundations. The Americans -- Pt. 2: 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 -- Pt. 3: Emergence. The British Americans

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

United States Canada Immigrants North America Great Britain

author: Bailyn, Bernard