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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Richter, Daniel K.     Subjects     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Richter, Daniel K.       by title:      Before the Revolutio...         MARC Display

Before the Revolution : America's ancient pasts / Daniel K. Richter. by Richter, Daniel K. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Subjects 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. ISBN:  9780674055803 (alk. paper) 0674055802 (alk. paper) Description:  viii, 502 p., [44] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Contents:  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 -- Present pasts. Requests:  0 Summary:  This work is an investigation of North American history in the seven centuries before the founding of the United States, looking at how the sequential cultural layers defined by people the author calls the progenitors, conquistadores, traders, planters, imperialists, and Atlanteans contributed to the society, culture, and politics of the U.S. as it emerged after the Revolutionary War. It includes sections on Albany, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Charleston, South Carolina; corn; fur trade; Florida; Jamestown, Virginia; Maryland; Massachusetts Bay Colony; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; St. Augustine, Florida; and Virginia.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.01 Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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