Before the Revolution : America's Ancient Pasts / Daniel K. Richter.
Richter, Daniel K., author.
2011
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Title Before the Revolution : America's Ancient Pasts / Daniel K. Richter.
Author Richter, Daniel K., author.
ISBN 9780674061248
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061248
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (560 p.) : 88 halftones, 13 maps
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674061248 doi
Summary 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.
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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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