Before the Revolution [[electronic resource] ] : America's ancient pasts / / Daniel K. Richter

• Autore: Richter Daniel K
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (560 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.01
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Before the Revolution
• ISBN: 0-674-06124-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452718003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II