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An edition of Before the Revolution (2011)

Before the Revolution

America's ancient pasts

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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.

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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Language
English
Pages
502

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Subjects

Indian influences, Civilization, European influences, African influences, History, United states, civilization, America, history, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Places

United States, America

Times

Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, To 1810

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2011, Harvard University Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-461) and index.

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Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973/.01
Library of Congress
E169.12 .R497 2011, E169.12.R497 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 502 p., [44] p. of plates
Number of pages
502

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OL26886918M
Internet Archive
beforerevolution0000rich
ISBN 10
0674055802
ISBN 13
9780674055803
LCCN
2010037881
OCLC/WorldCat
666616380

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