The Barbarous Years
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780394515700
Subjects: Modern - 17th Century; History - General History
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: List of Maps and Illustrations; title: Introduction; title: PART I Foundations; title: CHAPTER 1 The Americans; title: PART II Conquest: The Europeans; title: CHAPTER 2 Death on a Coastal Fringe; title: CHAPTER 3 The “Hammerours’ ” Regime; title: CHAPTER 4 Recruitment, Expansion, and Transformation; title: CHAPTER 5 “A Flood, a Flood of Bloud”; title: CHAPTER 6 Terra-Maria; title: CHAPTER 7 The Chesapeake’s New World; title: CHAPTER 8 The Dutch Farrago; title: CHAPTER 9 Carnage and Civility in a Developing Hub of Commerce; title: CHAPTER 10 Swedes, Finns, and the Passion of Pieter Plockhoy; title: CHAPTER 11 God’s Conventicle, Bradford’s Lamentation; title: CHAPTER 12 The New-English Sionists: Fault Lines, Diversity, and Persecution; title: CHAPTER 13 Abrasions, Utopians, and Holy War; title: CHAPTER 14 Defiance and Disarray; title: PART III Emergence; title: CHAPTER 15 The British Americans; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index