- 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


Before the Revolution
America's Ancient Pasts
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$24.00 • £20.95 • €21.95
ISBN 9780674072367
Publication Date: 05/13/2013
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Awards & Accolades
- A Marginal Revolution Best Book of 2011
- A Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2011