Before the Revolution : : America's Ancient Pasts /

Before the Revolution : : America's Ancient Pasts / / Daniel K. Richter.

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America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of...

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Richter, Daniel K.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (560 p.) :; 88 halftones, 13 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue: Layered Pasts
  • Progenitors
  • 1. Legacies of Power from Medieval North America
  • 2. Legacies of Conquest from Medieval Europe
  • Conquistadores
  • 3. Crusades of the Christ-Bearers to the Americas
  • 4. Crusades of the Protestants to New Worlds
  • Traders
  • 5. Native Americans and the Power of Trade
  • 6. Epidemics, War, and the Remapping of a Continent
  • Planters
  • 7. Searching for Order in New and Old England
  • 8. Planting Patriarchy in New England and Virginia
  • 9. Dutch, French, Spanish, and English Counterpoints
  • Imperialists
  • 10. Monarchical Power Reborn
  • 11. Planters Besieged
  • 12. Revolution, War, and a New Transatlantic Order
  • Atlanteans
  • 13. Producing and Consuming in an Atlantic Empire
  • 14. People in Motion, Enslaved and Free
  • 15. Contending for a Continent
  • 16. Gloomy and Dark Days
  • Epilogue: Present Pasts
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Credits for Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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