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Before the Revolution : America's Ancient Pasts by Daniel K. Richter (2011,...
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Specificaties
- Objectstaat
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- America
- ISBN
- 9780674055803
- Subject Area
- History
- Publication Name
- Before the Revolution : America's Ancient Pasts
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Subject
- Africa / General, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Europe / General, United States / General
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.7 in
- Item Weight
- 37.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674055802
ISBN-13
9780674055803
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99370882
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Publication Name
Before the Revolution : America's Ancient Pasts
Language
English
Subject
Africa / General, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Europe / General, United States / General
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
37.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-037881
Reviews
So far it is one of my two or three favorite non-fiction titles of the year...Definitely recommended., Once every quarter-century or so, a book of great sweep and synthetic sophistication bursts onto the scene to recast our understanding of early American history. This masterful study, with its startling comparisons of European patterns of conquest, colonization, chaos, and cultural convergence, is a must-read., The most important history books make us rethink things we think we know. In Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts , Daniel Richter shows us a land built by successive waves of adventurers, immigrants and merchants, one atop the other. He insists on the primacy of human action in history--something not always popular in academia today., Ultimately, [Richter's] history is a history of violence, of violence perpetrated by Europeans against Native Americans, by Native Americans against Europeans, and by both peoples against their own kith and kin. It is a dark and brutal story, although one in which the Native Americans are shown as for long holding their own, manipulating Europeans as trading partners and playing off one set of Europeans against another until the overwhelming British victory of 1763 no longer made this possible. There is precious little uplift here, and little sense of the more constructive characteristics of the brave new world that was rising amid the wreckage of the old. But, in patiently uncovering the layers beneath the rubble, Richter forcefully brings home to us that the American past belongs to many peoples, and that none should be forgotten., An elegantly written attempt to see colonial America from the indigenous perspective...In Richter's grand system, the continent's history comprises successive waves of adventurers, one atop another. Although the American Revolution "submerged these earlier strata," he argues that they nonetheless "remained beneath the surface to mold the nation's current contours." Walking atop the topmost strata, in other words, are thee and me, the terrain around us shaped by those who came first. The approach is bold, original and insightful...[A] masterly account... Before the Revolution is a book that by its very boldness invites intelligent argument. Every few decades, historians develop a new way of looking at the past. I am not talking about "revisionism" but unifying conceptual schemes, the sort of mental framework that Frederick Jackson Turner created in his argument for the importance of the frontier to our history or that Bernard Bailyn established in his studies of the American Revolution's ideological origins. Historians debated Turner for a long time and continue to debate Bailyn. I wouldn't be surprised if they were arguing with Richter a decade from today., An astute, thoroughly enjoyable mixture of political, economic and social history that culminates in a turbulent 18th-century North America whose people did not consider themselves on the verge of revolution but knew that things were not right., By placing early American history fully in its Atlantic contexts and seeing all participants as historical agents, Before the Revolution allows us to understand the genuine parallels as well as the contrasts in the experience of Americans through their layered pasts., With breathtaking sweep and profound learning, Daniel K. Richter synthesizes the histories of Europe, North America, and the Atlantic world from the late Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century -- and he does it, in ways that no previous writer has managed, without carving his story into discontinuous regional narratives or succumbing to the teleology of the American Revolution. This book is nothing less than a masterpiece., [Richter] demonstrates that U.S. history did not begin with the American Revolution, convincingly arguing that the ideas that manifested themselves in the mid-18th century with the rebellious colonists had their origins in such varied locales as the Mississippian Southeast and Europe of the Middle Ages...Any history written by this preeminent historian is an essential read for everyone interested in the deeper history of the United States., The core of the work is a vivid, well-paced, stimulatingly opinionated and provocatively selective history of colonial Anglo-America...[A] spirited and engaging history of British North America...Richter's trenchant language excites enthusiasm. He evokes picturesque episodes engagingly--the agonies of Roanoke, the role of European goods in Powhatan power structures, the peripeties of indentured servants, the intolerance of Protestant fanatics, the poverty of seventeenth-century colonial home life, and the struggles of proprietors, rebels and crowns.
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
973/.01
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Table Of Content
Contents Prologue: Layered Pasts Progenitors 1. Legacies of Power from Medieval North America 2. Legacies of Conquest from Medieval Europe Conquistadores 3. Crusades of the Christ-Bearers to the Americas 4. Crusades of the Protestants to New Worlds Traders 5. Native Americans and the Power of Trade 6. Epidemics, War, and the Remapping of a Continent Planters 7. Searching for Order in New and Old England 8. Planting Patriarchy in New England and Virginia 9. Dutch, French, Spanish, and English Counterpoints Imperialists 10. Monarchical Power Reborn 11. Planters Besieged 12. Revolution, War, and a New Transatlantic Order Atlanteans 13. Producing and Consuming in an Atlantic Empire 14. People in Motion, Enslaved and Free 15. Contending for a Continent 16. Gloomy and Dark Days Epilogue: Present Pasts Notes Further Reading Credits Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
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 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., In this epic synthesis, Richter reveals a new America. Surveying many centuries prior to the American Revolution, we discover the tumultuous encounters between the peoples of North America, Africa, and Europe and see how the present is the accumulation of the ancient layers of the past.
LC Classification Number
E169.12.R497 2011
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