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Larry Schwarm: Kansas FarmersIn the landscape of the American imagination the Kansas farmer looms large, an icon of midwestern diligence and bounty. But just as the state's seemingly flat horizon denotes earthly riches, the Kansas farmer contains multitudes. The photographs by Larry Schwarm capture this world in...
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Land Claims in the Mississippi TerritoryBy: Walter Lowrie, Editor, Orig. Pub. 1834, Reprinted 2021, 304 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-583-9.Mississippi was formed from land ceded to the United States by South Carolina and Georgia. Part of the British Province of West Florida and part of the land ceded...
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and IntrigueFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century's greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing - and...
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Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor"When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports--but what if it hadn't been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip Freeman in Julian, an appealing new entry in Yale's Ancient Lives series,...
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Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor"When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports--but what if it hadn't been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip Freeman in Julian, an appealing new entry in Yale's Ancient Lives series,...
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Journey to the Jones ACT: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776-1920Author: Charlie PapavizasPublisher: FortisPublished: 04/15/2024Pages: 634Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.28dISBN: 9781962729048This title is not returnable
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Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in ChinaA balanced, accessible, and thorough history of Jingjiao, the first Christian church in China Many people assume that the first introduction of Christianity to the Chinese was part of nineteenth-century Western imperialism. In fact, Syriac-speaking Christians brought the gospel along the Silk Road into...
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I Saw Poland Betrayed: An American Ambassador Reports To The American People""I Saw Poland Betrayed"" is a book written by Arthur Bliss Lane, an American ambassador who served in Poland during World War II. The book is a detailed account of Lane's experiences and observations during his time in Poland, where he witnessed firsthand the...
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Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845-1875During the Potato Famine of the nineteenth century, about one million Irish people perished from starvation and disease, while more than two million fled the country in fear and desperation, with some 850,000 landing in New York City. After a difficult journey, many found...
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Inventions & Discoveries: Medical InventionsWhat causes diseases and illnesses? How did the doctors diagnose and observe patients when there were no thermometers and stethoscopes? What is a CT scan and who developed it? This Encyclopedia will answer these and more hows and whats for you. Learning is made...
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Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and AirReady to relive some of the most daring voyages of all time? Unfold these spectacular cross sections and explore fourteen historic journeys. Open this dynamic book and discover how the greatest explorers in history -- from Marco Polo to Neil Armstrong -- plunged into...
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In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in LouisianaIn the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most prominent and frequently visited states...
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Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World Around ThemThis is a book about how Nahuas--native speakers of Nahuatl, the common language of the Aztec Empire and of more than 2.5 million Indigenous people today--have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods. It is a...
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India Once Ruled the Americas!Author: Gene D. MatlockPublisher: iUniversePublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46dISBN: 9780595134687This title is not returnable
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Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, ContextThe Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE, the Roman principate. Boatwright uses coins, inscriptions, papyri, material culture, and archaeology, as well as the more familiar...
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Immigrant America: A PortraitThis revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various...
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If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg: Volume 2: June 22-30, 1863General Robert E. Lee's movement north shifted the war out of the central counties of the Old Dominion into the Shenandoah Valley, across the Potomac, and beyond. The first installment carried the armies through the defining clash at Battle of Brandy Station, after which...
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If These Walls Could Talk: A History of the Chenoweth Farm Manor HouseThe Chenoweth Farm manor house was built in1900 by the Thomas family and has sheltered four generations of Kentucky farmers. This is its history--a story of deep roots, hard work, family bonds, and many adventures in-between.Author: Beth ThomasPublisher: Chenoweth PressPublished: 04/01/2020Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital AgeA leading critic's acclaimed story of "the photo boom" during the crucial decades of the 1970s and '80s "Grundberg . . . is a vibrant, opinionated, authoritative guide to the medium's past and present."--Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times When Andy Grundberg landed in New York...
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Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern ArchitectureThematically focused analysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects. In the mid-twentieth century, dramatic social and political change coincided with the ascendance and evolution of architectural modernism in Texas. Between the 1930s and 1980s, a...
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