The Barbarous Years by Bernard Bailyn

The Barbarous Years by Bernard Bailyn

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.

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ISBN 13	9780375703461
ISBN 10	0375703462
Title	The Barbarous Years
Author	Bernard Bailyn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2013-08-13
Number of pages	640
Prizes	Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize (History) 2013
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