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• catalog abstract ""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 administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter Stuyvesant watches Manhattan slip from Dutch grasp. William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania goes increasingly awry. And, finally, the British and the French fight history's first world war for supremacy in the New World. Telling each story using the literary conventions of the day, Quinn casts North America's colonial beginnings as a multicultural epic, gripping the reader throughout with his uncanny eye and storytelling skill. The result is a history not just for scholars, but for all citizens of a nation whose birth came only through long struggle, and at a terrible cost to Europeans and Native Americans alike.".
• catalog contributor b5472481.
• catalog coverage "Canada History To 1763 (New France)".
• catalog coverage "United States History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
• catalog coverage "United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description ""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 administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter Stuyvesant watches Manhattan slip from Dutch grasp. William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania goes increasingly awry. And, finally, the British and the French fight history's first world war for supremacy in the New World. Telling each story using the literary conventions of the day, Quinn casts North America's colonial beginnings as a multicultural epic, gripping the reader throughout with his uncanny eye and storytelling skill. The result is a history not just for scholars, but for all citizens of a nation whose birth came only through long struggle, and at a terrible cost to Europeans and Native Americans alike.".
• catalog description "I. Smith's Virginia -- II. Champlain at Quebec -- III. Pilgrim Separatists -- IV. Godly Covenant -- V.A Society of Jesus -- VI. Director General of Babel -- VII. Bacon's Virginia -- VIII. Sun King of the Wilderness -- IX. A Society of Friends -- X. Acadian Neutrality -- XI. Worldly War -- XII. Montcalm at Quebec.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-519) and index.".
• catalog extent "xi, 534 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0571198376 (cloth) :".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boston : Faber and Faber,".
• catalog spatial "Canada History To 1763 (New France)".
• catalog spatial "United States History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
• catalog spatial "United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
• catalog subject "973.2 20".
• catalog subject "E188 .Q56 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "I. Smith's Virginia -- II. Champlain at Quebec -- III. Pilgrim Separatists -- IV. Godly Covenant -- V.A Society of Jesus -- VI. Director General of Babel -- VII. Bacon's Virginia -- VIII. Sun King of the Wilderness -- IX. A Society of Friends -- X. Acadian Neutrality -- XI. Worldly War -- XII. Montcalm at Quebec.".
• catalog title "A new world : an epic of colonial America from the founding of Jamestown to the fall of Quebec / Arthur Quinn.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".