Before the Revolution

America's Ancient Pasts

Daniel K. Richter

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ISBN 9780674072367

Publication Date: 05/13/2013

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560 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

88 halftones, 13 maps

Belknap Press

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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
Acknowledgments
Index

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