American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700, Paperback - Molly A. Warsh

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If you could fit our culture of convenience into a petri dish, what would it look like? Movement Matters is a series of essays in which biomechanis...

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In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his...

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The American Indian--origin, culture, and language--engaged the best minds of Europe from 1492 to 1729. Were the Indians the result of a co-creatio...

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