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

"Bailyn spares no gory detail, but he treats his subjects with sympathy." --The New Yorker

"The Barbarous Years, the long-awaited companion to Voyagers to the West, is an even greater achievement. . . . Both in the span of time he examines (the years 1600 to 1675) and in his effort to capture the full range of 'the conflict of civilizations' in the early European colonization of North America, The Barbarous Years is Bailyn's most ambitious book." --The Daily Beast

"Bailyn's extensive skills at demography, material history, and ideological history are on full display." --The Wilson Quarterly

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.