Before the Revolution
America's ancient pasts
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Author
Publication
2011 - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
125,500 words, Guess
Page Count
502 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebeforerevolution0000rich
- ISBN-100674055802
- ISBN-139780674055803
- Library of Congress Control Number2010037881
- OCLC Control Number666616380
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780674055803
- Open LibraryOL26886918M
Classifications
- DDC973/.01
- LCCE169.12 .R497 2011
- LCCE169.12.R497 2011
Description
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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