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The barbarous years : the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675 Bernard Bailyn
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 191 .B35 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailyn, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- Canada--History--To 1763 (New France).
- Canada.
- Immigrants--North America--History--17th century.
- Immigrants.
- North America--Civilization--17th century.
- North America.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 614 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book -- T.p. verso."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-596) and index.
- Pulitzer Prize for History finalist, 2013.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credti line -- Portrait, John Printz (SAMS 7488), Stauffer collection [1095]; page 285.
- ISBN:
- 9780394515700
- 0394515706
- OCLC:
- 773667555
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