The first volume of the author's trilogy; the second of which is The Americans, the national experience; and the third of which is The Americans, the democratic experience.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-421) and index.
Summary
Governor William Bradford, an eyewitness, reported the landing of the Mayflower passengers on the American shore in mid-November 1620. Never had a Promised Land looked more unpromising. But within a century and a half -- even before the American Revolution -- this forbidding scene had become one of the more "civill" parts of the world. The large outlines of a new civilization had been drawn. How did it happen?
Awards
Bancroft Prize, 1959
Contents
v. 1. The colonial experience -- v. 2. The national experience -- v. 3. The democratic experience.
