The barbarous years : 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780394515700 :
ISBN: 0394515706 :
ISBN: 9780375703461
Physical Description: print
xv, 614 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi Book -- T.p. verso."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-596) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.