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9 produkter
Living on the Edge
Economic, Institutional and Management Perspectives on Wildfire Hazard in the Urban Interface
Av Austin Troy, Roger G. Kennedy
Inbunden, 2007
1252 kr
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Wildfires are a fact of life throughout many arid and semi-arid regions, such as the American West. With growing population pressures in these regions, human communities are increasingly developing in so-called urban-wildland interface zones, where severe fire driven ecosystems co-exist uneasily …
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
E-bok, 2003
151 kr
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Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now …
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson
A Study in Character
Häftad, 2002
384 kr
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This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American continent, than any other Founder …
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
E-bok, 2003
151 kr
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Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now …
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson
A Study in Character
E-bok, 2000
182 kr
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This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American continent, than any other Founder …
Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson
A Study in Character
E-bok, 2000
242 kr
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This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American continent, than any other Founder …
Cotton and Conquest
How the Plantation System Acquired Texas
Inbunden, 2013
410 kr
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This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters' need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, …
Hidden Cities
The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Cities
Häftad, 2011
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
224 kr
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Robert Kennedy, director of the National Park Service, analyzes the discovery of North America and the loss of ancient civilization, from the cities, roads, and commerce of the past as the nation evolved into present day. In Hidden Cities, Robert Kennedy sets out on the bold quest of recovering the …
