TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richter,Daniel K.
TI  - Before the Revolution: America's ancient pasts 
SN  - 9780674055803 (alk. paper)
AV  - E169.12 .R497 2011
U1  - 973/.01 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Indian influences
KW  - European influences
KW  - African influences
KW  - America
KW  - History
KW  - To 1810
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
N1  - 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
ER  -