The Americans, the colonial experience
(Book)

"A Caravelle edition."

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?