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The North American Idea

A Vision of a Continental Future

by Robert A. Pastor
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, increasing its share of the world economy. In 2001, however, North America peaked. Since then, trade has slowed among the three, manufacturing...
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The Intellectual Construction of America

Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800

by Jack P. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows...
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American Nations

A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

by Colin Woodard
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another...
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The Suppressed History of America

The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

by Paul Schrag, Xaviant Haze
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011

An investigation into the discoveries of Lewis and Clark and other early explorers of America and the terrible acts committed to suppress them • Provides archaeological proof of giants, the fountain of youth, and descriptions from Lewis’s journals of a tribe of “nearly white, blue-eyed”...
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by Edwin Tappan Adney, Howard I. Chappelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birchbark, were among the most highly developed manually propelled primitive watercraft. They could be used to carry heavy loads in shallow streams but were light enough to be hauled long distances over land. Built with Stone Age...
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by Luigi Morelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

This work builds on the foundation of the Popol Vuh, the document that retraces in mythical language the four ages, or stages of civilization, that all of America has undergone to some degree. It also moves from the Popol Vuh into later times through myths and legends of the Aztec and Iroquois. Myth...
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Cannibal – The language and history of THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD:

From Columbus and Cabot to Amerigo Vespucci (1440–1515) – Book 1 –

by Jesse Karjalainen
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014

The combined focus of this series is, of course, the history of America and the history of American English. This first book, Cannibal (call it a prequel) sets the scene for European conquest of America – North and South – and reminds us of the race between Columbus and Cabot to reach the Orient,...
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In the Eye of All Trade

Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783

by Michael J. Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community...
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THIS LAND

Only One Cumorah

by Wayne May
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012

The Geography of the Book of Mormon by E. Cecil McGavin and Willard W. Bean (& Wayne N. May) is an incisive study of the geographical locations of the three colonies that came to America in ancient days; and their spreading into North America in what is now Southern Canada and the country...
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The United States Oche na Government

The United States Presidents and Government In Igbo

by Nam Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015

The United States Oche na Government mgbaru ọsọ dị jupụta uche gị na mfe akụkọ ihe mere eme ihe ọmụma na-enyere onye ọ bụla nwere mmasị na American History na-amụta ihe anyị ọchịchị. Onye ọ bụla n'ime anyị Oche hapụrụ ya ma ọ bụ ya akara na akụkọ...
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by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008

Winner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father...
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Hostages to Fortune

The United Empire Loyalists and the Making of Canada

by Peter C Newman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyalists—their exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada. In 1776, tensions...
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A Cold Welcome

The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

by Sam White
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

When Europeans arrived in North America, the average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia and its effects—famine, starvation, desperation, and violence—were stark among colonists unprepared to fend for themselves. This history of the Little Ice Age in North America reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate.
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El Proyecto Macnamara

The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846

by John Fox
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014

This is the story of Eugene Macnamara, a maverick young priest from Ennis, County Clare who sought to establish a colony for Irish families in the 1840s in Alta California, Mexico s far north-western territory. Had the 10,000 ready volunteers from Limerick, Clare and Cork of whom he boasted, actually...
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