Literary Hangover
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 267 ratingsLiterary Hangover is a podcast, released twice on Saturdays each month, in which Matt Lech and his friends chat about fiction and the historical, social, and political forces behind the creation of it and represented by it.
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41 - Areopagitica by John Milton (1644)
January 09, 2022 23:28 - 2 hours - 38.6 MBGrace (@GraceJackson) and Alex (@Alecks_Guns) join Matt once again to discuss John Milton as a polemicist over John Milton as a poet. Milton's family background. Charles Deodati. Anti-Popery; the Gunpowder Plot, The Fatal Vespers. Virginity. The Trip to Italy. The English civil war and censorship/openness. Epic Poet tradition. Divorce Tracts. Areopagitica. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (ie Yes, We Should Actually Execute the King). Eikonoklastes (ie No, God Is Not Mad We Killed the Ki...
40 - The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon by John Filson (1784)
November 08, 2021 00:04 - 2 hours - 49.5 MBAlex, Grace, and Matt discuss The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon by John Filson, the seminal text in the creation of the Daniel Boone myth of the American hunter. Who underwrote Boone's expeditions? This bas relief of Boone and why the US state would memorialize him as an "indian killer." Also this is Lord Dunmore. Intro song: Daniel Boone by Pixies Morgan, Robert. 2008. Boone: a biography Faragher, John Mack. 1992. Daniel Boone: the life and legend of an American pioneer. Slotkin, Richa...
39 - The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover (1712)
October 23, 2021 13:00 - 50 minutes - 39.7 MBMatt goes solo to finish off the first Byrd diary with the year 1712. Also, Michael Shermer's disgusting views on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. Buzzfeed article on Michael Shermer (see Jefferson comments here) Brown, Kathleen M. 2012. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press Hill, Christopher. 2021. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. Pe...
38 - The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover (1711) - Tuscarora War/Rebellion, Colonel Parke's Estate
August 07, 2021 18:24 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBGet episodes a couple weeks early @ patreon.com/literaryhangover Hey everyone! Before we get to Boone, Matt is going to finish William Byrd II's first diary, this time the year 1711. The Tuscarora War, to be viewed as both an indian war *and* a slave rebellion, looms large as does the assassination of Byrd's father-in-law/Governor in Antigua, Colonel Daniel Parke. Sources NC BOOKWATCH: David LaVere: The Tuscarora War https://www.pbs.org/video/david-lavere-the-tuscarora-war-oifrkt/ The M...
37 - The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover (1710)
March 27, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBAlex, Grace, and Matt return with year 1710 in the diary of tobacco plantation master William Byrd II, a year marked by spooky mystical dreams, increasing attempts at escape from slaves, and Whig vs Tory political battle. Sources The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712, ed. Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling (Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1941) Linebaugh, Peter. 2006. The London hanged: crime and civil society in the eighteenth century. London: Verso.
36 - The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover (1709)
January 25, 2021 17:45 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBHello all! In this episode, we begin with Matt telling Grace and Alex about two books, Colonel Parke of Virginia: "The Greatest Hector in the Town" by Helen Hill Miller on Byrd's incredible father-in-law, Daniel Parke, and Perry of London: A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615–1753 on the Perry tobacco merchant family. Then, a discussion on the January 6 Capitol riots in the context of Bacon's Rebellion. Then we discuss the first year of William Byrd's Secret Diary, from 1709, w...
Welcome to Season 2! William Byrd II Introduction, Historical Fiction, and Future Subjects
December 31, 2020 21:03 - 1 hour - 17.3 MBHey everyone, Alex, Grace, and Matt have a catch up chat to kick off the new season. We discuss William Byrd II's secret diaries and example as a Virginia colonial gentleman, historical fiction, and preview what titles we'll be covering this year.
*UNLOCKED* Orwell|er - 5 - 'England Your England' - The Lion & The Unicorn Part 1 (1941)
July 04, 2020 14:30 - 2 hours - 62.1 MBOriginally released for patrons March 14. Part two will be unlocked soon and part three is available now for members at patreon.com/literaryhangover Hey patrons! Social distancing has upended our scheduled plans for Aphra Behn's "Widow Ranter" with Grace, so Alex and I decided to return to Orwell|er with the first installment of Orwell's "The Lion and The Unicorn," titled "England Your England." This is an essay written at the height of the WWII blitz bombing of Britain by Orwell from Lond...
35 - 'A Journal of the Plague Year' by Daniel Defoe (1722)
April 26, 2020 23:54 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Also subscribe to twitch.tv/literaryhangover for the study hall sessions! Hi everybody, Alex, Grace and I are back with an episode that will not really help you get your mind off of coronavirus! Today, Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year,' a fictionalized journal set in the 1665 plague in London. Foucault's Poli...
34 - 'The Widow Ranter, or, the History of Bacon in Virginia' by Aphra Behn (1689)
April 04, 2020 18:38 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBBest wishes to everyone dealing with pandemic bs. Full play text here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27273/27273-h/widow.html Grace, Alex, and Matt are back with another Aphra Behn work, this time her posthumously performed 1689 play "The Widow Ranter, or, the History of Bacon in Virginia." We discuss her role as a tory propagandist and as a spy rewriting recent history to glorify the heroic individual. The righteous Levellers and "delegating" the power of the people. Behn makes Bacon a...
33 - 'The History of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion' by Ebenezer Cook (1728)
February 11, 2020 01:08 - 2 hours - 58.6 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Alex and I return with another poem from the poet laureat of colonial Maryland, Ebenezer Cook, this time his narrative of Bacon's Rebellion(pdf). How memory-holed is Bacon's Rebellion? The false promise of promotional literature and the headright system. Economic anxiety and indian hating. Trade disputes, theft, jurisdict...
Reading "Bacon's Rebellion" by Ebenezer Cook (1731)
February 01, 2020 15:00This is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover My narration of Ebenezer Cook's 1731 poem, "The History of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia. Done into Hudibrastic Verse, from an old MS," which gives a pro-loyalist and anti-Bacon view common prior to the American Revolution, in the Hudibrastic style of his earlier "Sot-Weed Factor." This will be the subje...
Reading 'The Sot-Weed Factor' by Ebenezer Cook (1708)
January 31, 2020 06:54 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Here's my reading of the satirical poem, The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland, by Ebenezer Cook (1708), as discussed in episode 32. Thanks for your support.
32 - 'The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, A Voyage To Maryland' by Ebenezer Cook (1708)
January 11, 2020 18:12 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Alex and I discuss Ebenezer Cook's 1708 poem "The Sot-Weed Factor." The scant documentation we have for Cook's life. Cooks use of hudibrastic tetrameter and couplets. Who were the Chesapeake tobacco proletariat? The cheap linen clothing of American workers. Nationalism and Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities." The Ca...
31 - 'The Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan (1678)
December 21, 2019 18:42 - 2 hours - 68 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Alex and Matt return this week to discuss John Bunyan's 1678 work of allegorical fiction, 'The Pilgrim's Progress.' The significance of Pilgrim's Progress in anglo mythology. Bunyan's proletarian background. Why does Pilgrim's Progress remind us to hate our family, John Bunyan vs. against and civility. Bunyan choosing pri...
30 - 'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller (1953)
November 30, 2019 18:42 - 2 hours - 53.9 MBToday, Alex, Grace, and Matt talk about Arthur Miller's 1953 play 'The Crucible' and its Salem Witch Trial and McCarthyite contexts. Miller in 1992 on why the market is failing theater and why the state needs to sponsor it. Arthur Miller, fellow-travelling and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Early witch culture that likely influenced the girls' performances/delusions. Samuel Parris fails at life, squanders fathers' plantation fortune. Tituba was more indigenous than black, and di...
29 - 'Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave' by Aphra Behn (1688)
November 16, 2019 15:41 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Grace joins Alex and Matt once again to discuss Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, published in 1688. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and...
28 - The Salem Witch Trials
October 26, 2019 17:27 - 2 hours - 47.8 MBAlex and Matt return, this time to discuss the social, political and material origins of the Salem Witch Trials. Indian and imperial war trauma in the late 1600s. The Glorious Revolution and the coup of Andros by puritan leaders in Massachusetts. The economic divide between mercantile Salem Town and the agricultural offshoot that was ground zero for the outbreak, Salem Village. Increase and Cotton Mather's responsibility in spreading belief in witches. The difference between witch hunts and ...
27 - 'Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times' by Lydia Maria Child (1824)
September 28, 2019 15:14 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Hey LitHangers! Matt's solo this week with an introduction to the first novel by one of the 19th century's "social justice warriors" named Lydia Maria Child. Hobomok can be seen as a precursor to Hope Leslie (1827), and is an interesting book in its own right that takes 'other' natives, deviant colonial men, and colonial w...
26 - 'The Pioneers' by James Fenimore Cooper (1823) - Part 2
September 07, 2019 17:15 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Alex and Matt return to finish James Fenimore Cooper's "The Pioneers." The relationship between colonization and racism. Submerged nobility in Cooper's fiction. How American colonization really took off after 1776. Turkey shoots and how Natty calling Cooper's first non-slave black character the N-word illustrates the work ...
25 - 'The Pioneers' by James Fenimore Cooper (1823) - Part 1
July 27, 2019 19:10 - 2 hours - 64.6 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Alex and I discuss the underrated first novel of James Fenimore Cooper's 'Leatherstocking Tales,' ***The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale. ***We discuss James' father 'self- made' landlord father, William, who settled central New York after obtaining massive amounts of land following the flu...
24 - 'Utopia For Realists' by Rutger Bregman (2016)
July 06, 2019 18:24 - 2 hours - 55.8 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover This week, Chris and I take a look at Rutger Bregman's "Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World." We revisit Bregman's two viral moments: telling Davos the answer is to raie taxes and telling Tucker Carlson he's part of that problem. The need for imagination and AOC. Good UBIs and trash UBIs like Andrew Yang...
23 - 'The Blithedale Romance' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852)
June 22, 2019 18:53 - 2 hours - 72 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Alex and Matt discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major novel, inspired by his time at the Transcendentalist/Fourierist Brook Farm Commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841. A deeper introduction to utopian socialist Charles Fourier, who is mentioned in both this novel and The House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne's f...
22 - 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' by Margaret Fuller (1845)
May 25, 2019 17:24 - 2 hours - 76.6 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access the premium episodes on George Orwell (Orwell|er), become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Alex, Grace, and Matt are back to discuss the extraordinary (for structural reasons!) life of Margaret Fuller, a feminist and later socialist who is often mentioned in relation to the Transcendentalists. We talk about her time as a professional conversationalist in Boston, her self-sacrificing editorship of 'The Dial,' the...
21 - 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
May 11, 2019 17:08 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and get occasional premium content, become a member at patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Alex and Matt are once again joined by Grace, this time to discuss 'The Song of Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an epic poem published in 1855. We discuss: trochaic tetrameter!, Native American Christ, Longfellow's timidity and desire to speak out on issues like slavery, The New York Times' racism, Edgar Allan Poe's racism, inevitablism...
20 - 'Looking Back on the Spanish War' by George Orwell (1943)
April 20, 2019 16:42 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show AND ACCESS THE REGULAR UPCOMING MEMBERS-ONLY SERIES ON GEORGE ORWELL, become a Patron at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Next Orwell episode will be on his 1937 essay "Spilling the Spanish Beans." Quick note for Patrons: As mentioned in the episode, Alex and I will be doing periodic premium episodes on Orwell essays over the coming months as a thank you for your support. Our first George Orwell episode, of many! This time, his ess...
19 - 'The Soul of Man under Socialism' by Oscar Wilde (1891)
April 06, 2019 14:14 - 2 hours - 73 MBThis is the free Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and get occasional premium content, become a member at patreon.com/LiteraryHangover Today, joining Matt (@MattLech) and Alex (@Alecks_Guns) is David Griscom (@DavidGriscom) of The Michael Brooks Show and sinthome.com. We're discussing Oscar Wilde's 1891 essay, 'The Soul of Man under Socialism' and it's continued, though submerged, relevance. How earnest is Oscar Wilde's socialism? Oscar Wilde's mother as a revolutionary poet in D...
18 - King Philip's War & 'The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson' (1682)
March 16, 2019 17:44 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBThis is the free feed for Literary Hangover. To support the show, become a member at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover On this episode, Alex, Grace, and Matt discuss King Philip's War (or Metacomet's Rebellion) and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson that resulted from it. The economic, legal, and cultural forces that drove Metacomet and the Wampanoags to take up arms against the settlers. Praying Indians at Harvard and the Eliot Indian bible as a cultural weapon. Captivity and missionary...
17 - 'Wakefield' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835) & Henry James on Hawthorne
March 02, 2019 19:02 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBHi patrons! This week, Alex, Grace and I go through Henry James' 1879 biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (how James' biography is more about James). Sensitive and insecure America and listen to an unabridged reading of Hawthorne's 1835 short story, 'Wakefield' about a man who leaves his wife without explanation only to live nearby and watch her for decades. Sources: McCall, Dan. "Henry James's Hawthorne." New England Review (1990-) 18, no. 4 (1997): 111-18. Matthew Peters; "Henry James's Ha...
16 - 'The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall' by Edgar Allan Poe (1835)
February 16, 2019 21:24 - 3 hours - 81.1 MBHi Listeners! This is a free edition of Literary Hangover. To support the show, become a member at patreon.com/literaryhangover On todays show, Alex and I discuss "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger. A satire on the rising popularity of the sensationalist penny press magazines like The Sun, this story is as much a media critique as it is an early example of scie...
15 - 'The House of the Seven Gables' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
January 19, 2019 22:35 - 2 hours - 85.8 MBInside: Whigs as Zombie Federalists. The Eminem of the "Jump Jim Crow" dance. Inheritence as control by the dead. 19th century amusements: soap bubbles still hot. Trains will make homes obsolete and the telegraph was the internet. feat. @Alecks_Guns and @MattLech Sources: Cook, Jonathan A. "“The Most Satisfactory Villain That Ever Was”: Charles W. Upham and The House of the Seven Gables." The New England Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): 252-285. David Grant. "The Death of Anti-Whiggery in Th...
14 - 'A Dialogue Between Old England and New' by Anne Bradstreet (1650)
December 22, 2018 13:37 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBSupport the show at patreon.com/literaryhangover Alex and Matt talk Anne Bradstreet's "The Prologue" and "A Dialogue Between Old England and New," originally published in 1650 in The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America, a collection often said to have been published without Anne's full awareness and which saw her become the first poet, male or female, from the "New World." We also discuss the context of patriarchal repression illustrated by the Anne Hutchinson trials and the place of wo...
13 - 'Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America' by Nancy MacLean (2017)
December 08, 2018 19:16 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBChris and I discuss Nancy MacLean's controversial 2017 book 'Democracy in Chains' and the right-wing attack on Democracy. Is James Buchanan the Machiavelli of Libertarianism or its Forrest Gump? Thanks for listening! Please leave a review on iTunes or wherever is easiest and consider supporting the show with patreon.com/literaryhangover Matt (@MattLech) Chris (@ristotelian) @LitHangover References: MacLean's defense: 'The Controversy over Democracy in Chains' by Andy Seal https://s-us...
12 - 'Hope Leslie' by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1827) - Part 2: ...Remember It Was Provoked
November 18, 2018 20:55 - 2 hours - 64 MBBack again with more coverage of Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, we follow the story through the end of Volume 1. Including discussion of storytelling's place in liberal progress, the hands-on patriarchy of the colonial period, and more. @LitHangover @mattlech @Alecks_Guns @gracejackson References: Bell, Michael Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." American Quarterly 22, no. 2 (1970): 213-21. doi:10.2307/2711644. CREMER, ANDREA ROBER...
*UNLOCKED* Reading 'Hope Leslie,' Vol. 1, Ch 8-12
November 17, 2018 23:05 - 2 hours - 72.6 MBHi all, here is the third installment of my narration of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts for members. This is the end of Volume 1. To support the show, consider becoming a member at patreon.com/literaryhangover
*UNLOCKED* Reading 'Hope Leslie,' Vol. 1, Ch 4-7
November 17, 2018 22:55 - 2 hours - 68.4 MBHi all, in preparations for the this week's episode, Part 2 on Hope Leslie, here is the second installment of my narration originally released for for members. To support the show, consider becoming a member at patreon.com/literaryhangover
11 - 'Hope Leslie' by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1827) - Part 1: Vague Forebodings
November 10, 2018 18:23 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBThis is the public Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access bonus content, become a patron at patreon.com/literaryhangover Hi everyone! At long last, the first episode on Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts. This week, Alex and I are joined by Grace to break down the whodunit? of Sedgwick's erasure from the American literary canon, the incredible amount of still-relevant social isssues she includes in her novel, as well as a look at so...
*UNLOCKED* Reading 'Hope Leslie,' Vol. 1, Preface & Ch 1-3
November 09, 2018 17:40 - 1 hour - 38.2 MBHi everyone! In preparation for the first Hope Leslie episode on Saturday, I'm unlocking (previously available at Patreon.com/literaryhangover) the first installment of my narration of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts for members. These are the chapters that Grace, Alex, and I talk about. Once I'm finished, I'll upload it to Librivox where my (admittedly amateurish) narration will be immortalized in the public domain for as long as the internet ex...
10 - The Mystic Massacre & Pequot 'War'
October 22, 2018 14:45 - 1 hour - 34.3 MBThis is the free public Literary Hangover feed. To support the show and access bonus content become a patron at patreon.com/literaryhangover Hi everyone! Apologies for being a couple days late but it'll have been worth it as I think this came together nicely: to accompany Hope Leslie, a brief overview of the Pequot 'War' that is featured in the novel, New England's first genocide. Recommended reading: God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indian...
9 - "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump" by Corey Robin (2017)
October 06, 2018 16:53 - 1 hour - 29 MBHi everyone! Chris and I return with a book club discussion on Corey Robin's "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump," on of my favorite books on conservative ideology. TOPICS: Chapter 2, "On Counterrevolution," Conservatism as ideology of losers Majority Report Zero Sum Debate https://youtu.be/SbITzwJdOMw?t=258 4m23-8m25 Anger at a decadent ruling class Tucker Carlson Clips Ranting Against GOP and NIKE Corey Robin @ Harvard Law on the Second Edition https...
8 - 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
September 15, 2018 15:55 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBFinal Hawthorne for a bit! Alex returns and Kara premiers as we talk about 'The Scarlet Letter' as a the earliest story kids read that's fundamentally about sex, MTV Cribs, cuckold vengeance, and more. References: "Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne," C-SPAN, May 2001 https://www.c-span.org/video/?164017-1/writings-nathaniel-hawthorne Massachusetts Dress Ways: The Puritan Taste for Simple Clothes and “Sadd” Colors, Erenow.com https://erenow.com/common/fourbritishfolkwaysinamerica1989/26.ht...
7 - 'The Barbarous Years,' by Bernard Bailyn (2012)
September 02, 2018 02:08 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBHi everyone! Trying something different this week: Alex and I were joined by Chris to discuss a recent work of history by Barnard Bailyn, "The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675." Further references: Alan Taylor's review in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/112309/savage-new-world-barbarous-years-bernard-bailyn Charles c. Mann's review in The NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/books/review/the-barbaro...