Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64. (book reviews)

Delage, Denys. Translated from The French by Jane Brierly. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1993. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $60 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Bitter Feast, which was awarded the Prix Lionel-Groulx in 1986, is an account of the collision of the European and Amerindian societies from the time of the arrival of permanent European settlers in the northeastern part of North America until the Dutch colonial effort in New Netherlands was uprooted by the English in 1664. Delage focuses the bulk of his attention upon the French penetration of ...

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