The Barbarous Years
The Peopling of British North America
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xv, 614 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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:
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.
Subjects:
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.
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.
ISBN:
9780394515700
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US Bai | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US Bai | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
"This is a Borzoi Book "-- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.