Bernard Bailyn

The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

335 pages

This book has developed from a study that was first undertaken a number of years ago, when Howard Mumford Jones, then editor-in-chief of the John Harvard Library, invited me to prepare a collection of pamphlets of the American Revolution for publication in that series. The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred. In the end I concluded that no fewer than seventy-two of them ought to be re-published.

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution