TY - BOOK AU - Bailyn,Bernard TI - The barbarous years: the peopling of British North America : the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675 SN - 0394515706 : HRD AV - E191 .B35 2012 U1 - 973.2 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Immigrants KW - North America KW - History KW - 17th century KW - United States KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Canada KW - To 1763 (New France) KW - Civilization KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - America N1 - "This is a Borzoi Book -- T.p. verso."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-596) and index; Foundations. -- The Americans -- 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 -- Emergence -- The British Americans N2 - Presents an account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to the North American British colonies, evaluating its diversity, the survival struggles of immigrants, and their relationships with the indigenous populations of the Eastern seaboard ER -