In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and
children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an
uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or
Barbados, these migrants-entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims
alike-faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very
long way away.In Between Two Worlds , celebrated historian Malcolm
Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in
America during the first century of colonization. Following a large
and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and
warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates
the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves
sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a
society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every
turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who
first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to
leave their mark on the New World, they were forced-by hardship and
hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate
battles with Indians-to innovate and adapt or perish.As later
generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they
had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in
America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and
women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most
prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an
unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward
rebellion and, finally, independence
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