The Barbarous Years_ The Peopling of British North America_ The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
Introduction
Part I: Foundations
	Chapter 1: The Americans
Part II: Conquest: The Europeans
	Chapter 2: Death on a Coastal Fringe
	Chapter 3: The “Hammerours’ ” Regime
	Chapter 4: Recruitment, Expansion, and Transformation
	Chapter 5: “A Flood, a Flood of Bloud”
	Chapter 6: Terra-Maria
	Chapter 7: The Chesapeake’s New World
	Chapter 8: The Dutch Farrago
	Chapter 9: Carnage and Civility in a Developing Hub of Commerce
	Chapter 10: Swedes, Finns, and the Passion of Pieter Plockhoy
	Chapter 11: God’s Conventicle, Bradford’s Lamentation
	Chapter 12: The New-English Sionists: Fault Lines, Diversity, and Persecution
	Chapter 13: Abrasions, Utopians, and Holy War
	Chapter 14: Defiance and Disarray
Part III: Emergence
	Chapter 15: The British Americans
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
A Note About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Large Map Images
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America was not dierent from Spanish or Portuguese America. The
British and Dutch overseas conquests were as brutal as those of the
other conquering nations, in certain places and at certain times as
genocidal. All the people involved—native Americans, Europeans,
latterly Africans—struggled for survival with outlandish aliens, rude
people, uncultured in what mattered. All—native Americans,
Europeans, and Africans—felt themselves dragged down or
threatened with descent into squ