Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts /
Richter, Daniel K.
Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts / Daniel K. Richter. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - viii, 502 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : layered pasts -- Progenitors -- Legacies of power from medieval North America -- Legacies of conquest from medieval Europe -- Conquistadores -- Crusades of the Christ-bearers to the Americas -- Crusades of the protestants to new worlds -- Traders -- Native Americans and the power of trade -- Epidemics, war, and the remapping of a continent -- Planters -- Searching for order in new and old England -- Planting patriarchy in New England and Virginia -- Dutch, French, Spanish, and English counterpoints -- Imperialists -- Monarchical power reborn -- Planters besieged -- Revolution, war, and a new transatlantic order -- Atlanteans -- Producing and consuming in an Atlantic empire -- People in motion, enslaved and free -- Contending for a continent -- Gloomy and dark days -- Epilogue : present pasts.
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United States--Civilization.
United States--Civilization--Indian influences.
United States--Civilization--European influences.
United States--Civilization--African influences.
America--History--To 1810.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
E169.12 / .R497 2011
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Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts / Daniel K. Richter. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - viii, 502 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : layered pasts -- Progenitors -- Legacies of power from medieval North America -- Legacies of conquest from medieval Europe -- Conquistadores -- Crusades of the Christ-bearers to the Americas -- Crusades of the protestants to new worlds -- Traders -- Native Americans and the power of trade -- Epidemics, war, and the remapping of a continent -- Planters -- Searching for order in new and old England -- Planting patriarchy in New England and Virginia -- Dutch, French, Spanish, and English counterpoints -- Imperialists -- Monarchical power reborn -- Planters besieged -- Revolution, war, and a new transatlantic order -- Atlanteans -- Producing and consuming in an Atlantic empire -- People in motion, enslaved and free -- Contending for a continent -- Gloomy and dark days -- Epilogue : present pasts.
9780674055803 (alk. paper) 0674055802 (alk. paper)
2010037881
United States--Civilization.
United States--Civilization--Indian influences.
United States--Civilization--European influences.
United States--Civilization--African influences.
America--History--To 1810.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
E169.12 / .R497 2011
973/.01