Richter, Daniel K. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674055803 (alk. paper) 0674055802 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010037881 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Civilization.<br/>United States--Civilization--Indian influences.<br/>United States--Civilization--European influences.<br/>United States--Civilization--African influences.<br/>America--History--To 1810.<br/>United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E169.12  / .R497 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973/.01