Books by Daniel K. Richter

First published in 1987, "Beyond the Covenant Chain" was one of the first studies to acknowledge that the Iroquois never had an empire. This book remains a valuable study of diplomatic amd military relations among Native American groups in 17th- and 18th-century North America.

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.

In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reexamines struggles between Native peoples and Europeans in early America in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.