New World An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec

Name: New World An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec
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ISBN: 9780571198375

ISBN-10: 0571198376

ISBN-13: 9780571198375

Edition: 1994

Authors: Arthur Quinn

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""I write of peoples and of a struggle." So begins A New World, an ambitious and extraordinary book that challenges conventional historical narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here." "Beginning with the swaggering John Smith at Jamestown and ending with the beleaguered Montcalm at Quebec, Arthur Quinn allows towering historical figures to emerge from an often beautiful, sometimes forbidding early American landscape and speak. An elderly William Bradford looks back with growing despair at the early promise of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Governor John Winthrop tries to…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/30/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 600
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Preface



Smith's Virginia



Champlain at Quebec



Pilgrim Separatists



Godly Covenant



A Society of Jesus



Director General of Babel



Bacon's Virginia



Sun King of the Wilderness



A Society of Friends



Acadian Neutrality



Worldly War



Montcalm at Quebec


Sources and Acknowledgments


Index