Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier, Hardcover - Ian Saxine

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists togethe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William CrononForeword by: John DemosAfterword by: William CrononThe book that launched environmental history now updated. ...

Reducere. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

Reducere. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how all three cultures--Indian,...

Reducere. W. Deloss love's biography of Samson Occom is a work of in time. Long out of print, this classic account reveals one of the most unusual actors to ...

One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century an...

Reducere. At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession...

LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE NORTHERN FRONTIER OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AT POROLISSUM - Coriolan Horatiu Opreanu, Vlad-Andrei Lazarescu

Reducere. During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, ...

Reducere. This tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life.``Interesting in its spirit a...

Reducere. An ambitious and shocking exposé of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early ...

Reducere. This book examines how the Wamapanoag Indians' adoption of Christianity and other selective borrowing from English culture contributed to Indian/En...

Reducere. In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth centu...

Reducere. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On ...

Reducere. This beautifully presented book offers an informed and fascinating account of the eighteen major tribes that lived in pre-colonial New England. Eac...

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

Reducere. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In t...

PIRATES AND THEIR TREASURE IN NEW ENGLAND AND ON CAPE COD. Who were they and why were they here? The Golden Age on Cape Cod in New England was betw...

Reducere. Written from an Indian perspective, this text provides a history of the Lumbee Indians of southwestern North Carolina. Sections cover: the colonial...

From the first Slavic migrations to the Romanovs' rise to the Putin era, Russia has endured for centuries as a nation whose sheer size and diversit...

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

DescriptionIn Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese Am...

Reducere. "Land of Nakoda" is a vivid account of the history, legends, customs, crafts, and ceremonies of the Assiniboine Indians of the northern plains. Fir...

DescriptionDescendants of founders of New Jersey reside within the state, across the nation and around the world. Explore the lives and motivations...

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Reducere. George R. Stewart's classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the n...

Publisher: New PressAuthor(s): Lloyd C. GardnerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 209 x 162 x 28Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): M...

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Gregory Goose is heading into space. Can You find him?

Reducere. In It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the inves...

Eduardo Galeano writes: These pages, written in bursts, disorderly, jubilant and desperate, tell of the adventures and misfortunes of the man who h...

Lucy has been training her pet ferret, flash, for the annual Fastest fearless Ferret race. But as the competition approaches Flash is nowhere to be...