LEADER 04294nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910817871703321 005 20230725061505.0 010 $a0-674-06124-1 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061248 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039409 035 $a(EBL)3301260 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860013 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475147 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860013 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10883924 035 $a(PQKB)10872187 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301260 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301260 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678691 035 $a(OCoLC)923119852 035 $a(DE-B1597)178252 035 $a(OCoLC)1162437439 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061248 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039409 100 $a20100908d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBefore the Revolution $eAmerica's ancient pasts /$fDaniel K. Richter 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (560 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-07236-7 311 $a0-674-05580-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue : 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. 330 $aAmerica 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 spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoples?Indians, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, English?as they struggled with one another and with their own people for control of land and resources. Their struggles occurred in a global context and built upon the remains of what came before. Gradually and unpredictably, distinctive patterns of North American culture took shape on a continent where no one yet imagined there would be nations called the United States, Canada, or Mexico.By seeing these trajectories on their own dynamic terms, rather than merely as a prelude to independence, Richter?s epic vision reveals the deepest origins of American history. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / General$2bisacsh 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xIndian influences 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xEuropean influences 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xAfrican influences 607 $aAmerica$xHistory$yTo 1810 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / General. 676 $a973/.01 700 $aRichter$b Daniel K$0233058 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817871703321 996 $aBefore the Revolution$94085066 997 $aUNINA