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1 online resource (viii, 502 pages, [44] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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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. |
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9780674061248 (electronic bk.) |
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0674061241 (electronic bk.) |
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