The Barbarous Years, (Paperback)

from rivkat

Fractious tribes and fractious Britons clashed, constantly misunderstanding each other, with side orders of massacres, torture and cannibalism used by various tribes to assert dominance over the (temporarily) vanquished. Also, immigrants didn't like each other much either-it's funny now, but the ...

from HadriantheBlind

The history of the inhabitants of the Atlantic Seaboard in the 17th century was no Thanksgiving dinner party. Instead, it was more like Hobbes' dictum that life is full of "continual fear, and danger of violent death; [...] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The native inhabitants, of co...

from gbelik

It was not easy to be an immigrant to the wilds of America in the 17th century. This (perhaps too) exhaustive survey of the various settlements was full of detail of the trials and tribulations of both the settlers and the native peoples (in general, not a pretty picture!).