Between two worlds : how the English became Americans / Malcolm Gaskill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaskill, Malcolm, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization--To 1783.

United States.

United States--Civilization--English influences.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants-entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike-faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and re

Contents:

Contents; Preface ; Prologue: Worlds Collide ; Maps ; I. PLANTERS: 1607-1640; 1. Brave Heroic Minds ; 2. Earth's Only Paradise ; 3. Each Man Shall Have His Share ; 4. The Vast and Furious Ocean ; 5. Full of Wild Beasts and Wild Men ; 6. Projects of No Fantasy ; 7. To Clearer Light and More Liberty ; 8. In Darkness and the Shadow of Death ; II. SAINTS: 1640-1675; 9. The Distracted Condition of My Dear Native Soil ; 10. Marching Manfully On ; 11. Devouring Caterpillars and Gnawing Worms ; 12. A Heap of Troubles and Confusion ; 13. How Is Your Beauty Become Ashes?

14 Remembrance of an Exile in a Remote Wilderness 15. The Day of Trouble Is Near ; III. WARRIORS: 1675-1692; 16. Exquisite Torments and Most Inhumane Barbarities ; 17. A People Bred Up in This Country ; 18. Being a Constitution WIthin Themselves ; 19. Strange Creatures in America ; 20. These Dark Territories ; Epilogue: New Worlds ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Illustration Credits ; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-465-08086-3

OCLC:

894791341