| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 614 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi Book -- T.p. verso." |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [533]-596) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1 Foundations -- The Americans ; Part 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 ; Part 3 Emergence -- The British Americans. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
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Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France)
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Immigrants -- North America -- History -- 17th century.
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North America -- Civilization -- 17th century.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century.
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| ISBN |
9780394515700: $35.00 |
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0394515706 |
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