Before the Revolution America's ancient pasts / [electronic resource] :
Daniel K. Richter.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
- viii, 502 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., maps.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780674061248 (electronic bk.)
United States--Civilization. United States--Civilization--Indian influences. United States--Civilization--European influences. United States--Civilization--African influences. America--History--To 1810. United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.