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Fur, Fortune, and Empire
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Eric Jay Dolin |
In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, an… |
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North America
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Derek Hall |
With several entries about North America, and details of dozens of dependencies, this book provides invaluable information at a glance. This profile includes an up-to-date data file, a map, and a cou… |
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The Northern world, AD 900-1400
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Herbert D. G. Maschner,Owen K. Mason,Robert McGhee |
"The region stretching across the Arctic from the Bering Straits to Greenland is one of the most critical for understating modern global climate change, especially as it affects keystone species and … |
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The eternal frontier
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Tim F. Flannery |
"Sixty-five million years ago, a meteor six miles wide smashed into the Gulf of Mexico, ending the age of dinosaurs and devastating the North American continent. Starting with this catastrophic event… |
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Sustaining Lake Superior
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Nancy Langston |
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior's conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change. |
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Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic
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Richard Andrew McKay |
The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Y… |
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Storming the old boys' citadel
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Carla Blank |
This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America during the 19th century. Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur, … |
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Longhouses
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Jack Manning |
"Informative, engaging text and vivid photos introduce readers to longhouses"-- |
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The peopling of British North America
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Bernard Bailyn |
This book focuses on the beginnings of the peopling of America, from 1500 to the advent of the Industrial Revolution, taking into account such aspects as settlement, social patterns, and groups and r… |
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Spirit of Powwow
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Kay Johnston,Gloria Nahanee |
Welcome to “Spirit of Powwow” or the website http://www.spiritofpowwow.com . You may be asking yourself “Why is an English woman writing about Pow Wow?” Take a few moments and read my story and then… |
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Subject matter
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Joyce E. Chaplin |
"With this reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of rac… |
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The shaping of North America from earliest times to 1763
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Isaac Asimov |
A history of North America concentrating on European interests and rivalries and their influence on the development of the New World. |
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Colonial life
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Rebecca Stefoff |
Presents the history of the British colonies in North America, beginning with the Jamestown settlement, through excerpts from letters, pamphlets, journal entries, and other documents of the time. |
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And a Bottle of Rum
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Wayne Curtis |
One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American HistoryAnd a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter f… |
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Here
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Anthony DePalma |
"Anthony DePalma combines reporting on intracontinental politics from the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 through the dramatic triple national elections in 2000, with re-exam… |
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Warpaths
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John Keegan |
At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people, *Fields of Battle* spans more than two centur… |
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North America
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Michael M. Brescia |
xv, 247 pages : 23 cm |
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