The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America--The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
By Bernard Bailyn.
Description
Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum of religious attachments. In the early ye...
ISBN(s)
0375703462, 9780375703461
