The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

A compelling, fresh account of the primary great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North The us, their involvements with each and every 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, they usually moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum of religious attachments. Within the early years, their stories aren’t basically of triumph but of confusion, failure, violence, and the lack of civility as they sought to normalize situations and recapture lost worlds. It was once 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 keep an eye on and prosper Within the new configurations of life that were emerging around them.

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