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The barbarous years : the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675 / Bernard Bailyn. |
| Authors: | Bailyn, Bernard. |
| Call number: | 973.2 BAI |
| Publisher: | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. |
| Publication date: | 2012. |
| Subject: |
Immigrants -- North America -- History -- 17th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) North America -- Civilization -- 17th century. Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century. |
| Title: | The barbarous years : the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675 / Bernard Bailyn. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xv, 614 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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. |
| Notes: | "This is a Borzoi Book "-- T.p. verso. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780394515700 0394515706 |
| LCCN: | 2012034223 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1406046 |
| Bib No.: | 1406046 |