The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

by Bernard Bailyn

Paperback, 1988

Status

Available

Call number

973.2

Collection

Publication

Vintage (1988), Paperback, 192 pages

Description

This book focuses on the beginnings of the peopling of America, from 1500 to the advent of the Industrial Revolution, taking into account such aspects as settlement, social patterns, and groups and races.

User reviews

LibraryThing member carterchristian1
With his remarkable rich background in American history
author shows migration patterns for almost 200 years from
Europe to what would become the United States. He
suggests the reader imagine a spacecraft photographing
the globe from this period,showing the movement of
peoples. Today, as we see a
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migration from south of
the US border to the United States and the dispersion
of Lations and their language and culture we have a
template from which to view this earlier migration.

Since the author wrote the book to compact his
impressions of longer books, it is especially useful for
the individual with a shorter amount of reading time and
an opportunity to digest this 200 year history of migration in
fewer pages. And if, as in my case you can actually
trace forebears to this period it is especially interesting.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1986

Physical description

192 p.; 7.8 inches

ISBN

0394757793 / 9780394757797
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