@article{1476739,
      recid = {1476739},
      author = {Richter, Daniel K., },
      title = {Before the Revolution : America's Ancient Pasts /},
      pages = {1 online resource (560 p.) :},
      abstract = {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 the nation's pre-revolutionary past.  In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel Richter shows that  the United States has a much deeper history than is  apparent-that far from beginning with a clean slate, it is  a nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as  the Middle Ages, pasts whose legacies continue to shape the  present.Exploring a vast range of original sources, Before  the Revolution spans more than seven centuries and ranges  across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers  the lives of a stunning array of peoples-Indians,  Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, English-as they  struggled with one another and with their own people for  control of land and resources. Their struggles occurred in  a global context and built upon the remains of what came  before. Gradually and unpredictably, distinctive patterns  of North American culture took shape on a continent where  no one yet imagined there would be nations called the  United States, Canada, or Mexico.By seeing these  trajectories on their own dynamic terms, rather than merely  as a prelude to independence, Richter's epic vision reveals  the deepest origins of American history.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476739},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061248},
}