Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts / / Daniel K. Richter.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 502 p., [14] p. of plates :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.