Before the Revolution America's ancient pasts
Record details
- ISBN: 0674055802 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780674055803 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0674061241 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780674061248 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 502 p., [44] p. of plates) : ill., maps
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electronic resource - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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