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Books on History > North American
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Lysander Spooner
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1860. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE COLONIAL CHARTERS. When our ancestors came to this country, they Drought with them the common law of England,... more
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Williamh Prescott
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Description: The first of two volumes on the history of Mexico, originally published in 1843. It begins with ethnographic descriptions of ancient Mexicans such as the Aztecs, and documents the conquest of Mexico following the arrival of Europeans. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version... more
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Nancy Christie
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008]
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Transatlantic Subjects dissents from four decades of scholarly writing on colonial Canada by taking the British imperial context - rather than the North American environment - as a conceptual framework for interpreting patterns of social and cultural life in the colonies prior to the 1850s. Anchored in "the new British... more
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Robert D Bolen
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copy allowed for 137 selections within interval of -1 days Print allowed for 137 selections Read aloud allowed : Unlimited Description: Smoke siignals & Wagon Tracks is a history of the fur trade and the development of the American Pacific Northwest. It includes the Gold Strikes,... more
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Jack London
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010]
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Description: This book first printed in 1926 is a collection of 6 essay's written by Jack London for various American popular magazines in the early 1900's. London died in 1914 and these essay's were gathered and published by his wife Charmian London. The titles of the chapters are 1."The Apostate",... more
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White Deer Of Aautumn
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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Description: The Native American Book of Knowledge The Circle of Life is an American Indian symbol for the Four Directions. The four colors represent the four stages of life, from childhood to old age; the cycle of seasons, from spring to winter; and the four races of people. Each of... more
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Gilles Proulx
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 1984]
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Description: Between France and New France is an absorbing look at life abroad the sailing vessels which plied the North Atlantic during the French colonial era in North America. Focusing on the first half of the eighteenth century and the Seven Years' War period, this book analyses four major aspects... more
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Dan Abnett
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2007]
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Journey along with Columbus on his history-making 1492 voyage to find a water route to Asia. Description: Journey along with Columbus on his history-making 1492 voyage to find a water route to Asia. Journey along with Columbus on his history-making 1492 voyage to find a water route to Asia.... more
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Fred Anderson ,
Andrew Cayton
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2005]
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Description: With the great exceptions of the Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II, Americans seldom think about how military conflict has fundamentally shaped the United States. The Dominion of War offers a startling new perspective on American history. By moving America's forgotten conflicts-its imperial wars-to center stage, the... more
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William Vollmann
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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Description: An epic study of an emblematic American region by one of our most celebrated writers It sprawls across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of southeastern California, right across the Mexican border. For generations of migrant workers, from Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl... more
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Thomas David Schoonover
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Description: A study of U.S.-Mexican relations from 1861 to 1867, with an emphasis on the role of liberal ideology and economic expansionism. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title.... more
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Upton Sinclair
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010]
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Description: This novel describes the working class day-to-day struggle for economic justice. The book was written in 1937 to aid the formation of the 'United Auto Workers' (UAW). It is a continuation of Sinclair's famous novel "The Jungle". Again,this novel depicts how alienated work not only brings degradation to workers,... more
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Crowley Brian Lee Jason
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Description: One hundred years ago a great Canadian, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What happened? Canada lost sight of Laurier's plan and failed to claim its century, dwelling instead in the long shadow of the... more
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Robert Mc Caughey
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Description: Marking Columbia University's 250th anniversary, this is the definitive history of one of America's oldest and most redoubtable urban institutions in the country's largest, most culturally diverse city. This comprehensive history of Columbia University extends from the prefounding discussions about New York City being "a fit Place for a... more
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Francis Parkman
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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Working from firsthand sources-and through the bias and prejudices of his time-noted American historian and writer Francis Parkman produced, in 1867, this prodigious history of the Jesuit priesthood in North America during the early decades of the European colonization. With reports, memoirs, journals, letters, and other papers both official and... more
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Doug Hunter ,
Douglas Hunter
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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A bold new account of explorer Henry Hudson and the discovery that changed the course of history. The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and storyteller, has written... more
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Leonard P Judge
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Description: Mary's Master provides observations and interpretations of the English colonization of the area presently known as southern New England. This is a critical review of some of the English writings and quotes regarding those interactions that were contemporary to the time that the English were colonizing the area. The... more
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Robert B Slocum
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Description: Gustave Flaubert said that novels are the private histories of nations. The philosopher Richard Rorty contended that novelists and poets can shed more light than philosophy on the human condition. Fiction as history has been the theme of several recent publications. In his The Role of Place in Literature... more
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Andrew David ,
Introduction By Barry Gough
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Description: Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with letters and the journal of his journey across Mexico (1793). Aiming to... more
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Richard E Mc Cabe ,
Bart W O Gara ,
Henry M Reeves
[Ebook, Open epub]
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Description: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction... more
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