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Bezig met laden... Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts (editie 2013)door Daniel K. Richter (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Richter traces colonial America further than most histories, to roots in the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. He argues that overlapping and conflicting groups, including “progenitors,” conquistadors, planters, traders, and others shaped the places and peoples that ultimately had a civil war that turned into independence for thirteen of Britain’s numerous colonies in the hemisphere. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.01History and Geography North America United States United States Philosophy & theoryLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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