The barbarous years : the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675 / Bernard Bailyn.

Author: Bailyn, Bernard.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

ISBN: 9780394515700
0394515706

Description: xv, 614 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

Notes: "This is a Borzoi Book -- T.p. verso."

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.