Before the Revolution America's Ancient Pasts

Name: Before the Revolution America's Ancient Pasts
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ISBN: 9780674072367

ISBN-10: 0674072367

ISBN-13: 9780674072367

Edition: 2011

Authors: Daniel K. Richter

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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…

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List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.848

Daniel K. Richter is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.



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


Notes


Further Reading


Credits


Acknowledgments


Index