Trade and Resources

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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America 3.86 avg rating — 960 ratings
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World 3.61 avg rating — 556 ratings
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A Naked View of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Unbiased Informational Review in Plain English
A Naked View of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Unbiased Informational Review in Plain English 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating — 75,182 ratings
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The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade
The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire 4.28 avg rating — 4,260 ratings
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
Glaciers: The Politics of Ice 3.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 3.99 avg rating — 576 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World 4.17 avg rating — 46,208 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,490 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
Coal: A Human History 3.72 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
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Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day 3.83 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age 4.07 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History
The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History 3.77 avg rating — 61 ratings
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No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die
No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Superior Rendezvous-Place: Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade, Second Edition
Superior Rendezvous-Place: Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade, Second Edition 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Two Oceans to Canton, the Story of the Old China Trade
Two Oceans to Canton, the Story of the Old China Trade 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 4.36 avg rating — 14,156 ratings
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The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism 4.49 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire
The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire 3.81 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver 3.99 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World 3.37 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Green Capital: A New Perspective on Growth
Green Capital: A New Perspective on Growth 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation, and ... Maritime Neighbors in Ancient and Modern...
A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation, and ... Maritime Neighbors in Ancient and Modern... it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mad About The Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South East Asia
Mad About The Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South East Asia
by: John Keay
3.86 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Deerskins & Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade With Anglo-America, 1685-1815
Deerskins & Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade With Anglo-America, 1685-1815 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World 4.17 avg rating — 46,208 ratings
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The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company
The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company
by: John Keay
3.75 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe 3.75 avg rating — 311 ratings
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The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850
The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History 3.78 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
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The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer 3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America
Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 4.06 avg rating — 215 ratings
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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees 4.21 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men
Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink 3.78 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science) 3.38 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade 3.87 avg rating — 775 ratings
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Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain 4.23 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History 4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings
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An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795
An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail 3.86 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America 4.06 avg rating — 1,559 ratings
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The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are 3.57 avg rating — 2,755 ratings
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Souvenirs of the Fur Trade: Northwest Coast Indian Art and Artifacts Collected by American Mariners 1788-1844
Souvenirs of the Fur Trade: Northwest Coast Indian Art and Artifacts Collected by American Mariners 1788-1844 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,191 ratings
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The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution
The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage
Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage 3.56 avg rating — 666 ratings
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When London Was Capital of America
When London Was Capital of America 3.62 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia 4.55 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley
Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia 4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 4.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South
The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings
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Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It
Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It 4.25 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
The People's Republic of Chemicals 4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 4.02 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by: Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier
Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by: Dan Fagin
4.09 avg rating — 4,620 ratings
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No Logo
No Logo 3.89 avg rating — 32,436 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,264 ratings
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Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles 4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources 3.67 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict 3.75 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia
Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade
Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade 3.50 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade 3.90 avg rating — 1,763 ratings
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America 4.06 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 4.12 avg rating — 20,587 ratings
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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 3.96 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Columbus in the Americas (Turning Points in History, 4)
Columbus in the Americas (Turning Points in History, 4) 3.71 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Caribbean before Columbus
The Caribbean before Columbus 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise
Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise 3.83 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus
Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World 4.35 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean 4.28 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century 3.86 avg rating — 91 ratings
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American Colonial History: Clashing Cultures and Faiths
American Colonial History: Clashing Cultures and Faiths 4.07 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Presidio Santa María de Galve: A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
Presidio Santa María de Galve: A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World
On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Spanish St. Augustine: The Archaeology of a Colonial Creole Community
Spanish St. Augustine: The Archaeology of a Colonial Creole Community
by: Deagan
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America 3.97 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South
The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity
African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland 3.95 avg rating — 1,326 ratings
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Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination 3.50 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Spanish Horsemen and Horses in the New World
Spanish Horsemen and Horses in the New World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History 3.54 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Hmong Refugees in the New World: Culture, Community and Opportunity
Hmong Refugees in the New World: Culture, Community and Opportunity 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World 4.23 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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