Author:
Bailyn, Bernard.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Description614 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:"This is a Borzoi Book -- T.p. verso."
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.