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The Barbarous Years

By Bernard Bailyn

The Barbarous Years Books

The Barbarous Years

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A 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 years, their stories are not mainly of triumph but of confusion, failure, violence, and the loss of civility as they sought to normalize situations and recapture lost worlds. It was a thoroughly brutal encounter-not only between the Europeans and native peoples and between Europeans and Africans, but among Europeans themselves, as they sought to control and prosper in the new configurations of life that were emerging around them.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
640
Release Date:
2013-08-13
Publication Date:
2013-08-13
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375703462
ISBN13:
9780375703461
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
961 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
34 cm
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