TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donegan,Kathleen
TI  - Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
T2  - Early American Studies
SN  - 9780812209143
AV  - E162 -- .D66 2014eb 
U1  - 973 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life-United States-Historiography
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life-United States-History-Sources
KW  - Great Britain-Colonies-America-Historiography
KW  - Great Britain-Colonies-America-History-Sources
KW  - Barbados-Colonization-Historiography
KW  - Barbados-Colonization-History-Sources
KW  - United States-Colonization-Historiography
KW  - United States-Colonization-History-Sources
KW  - United States-Social conditions-To 1865-Historiography
KW  - United States-Social conditions-To 1865-Sources
KW  - United States-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775-Historiography
KW  - United States-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775-Sources
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Unsettlement -- Chapter 1. Roanoke: Left in Virginia -- Chapter 2. Jamestown: Things that Seemed Incredible -- Chapter 3. Plymouth: Scarce Able to Bury their Dead -- Chapter 4. Barbados: Wild Extravagance -- Afterword: Standing Half-Amazed -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
N2  - Seasons of Misery offers a boldly original account of early English settlement in American by placing catastrophe and crisis at the center of the story. Donegan argues that the constant state of suffering and uncertainty decisively formed the colonial identity and produced the first distinctly colonial literature
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ER  -