Geographic Literacy

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,105 ratings
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1) 4.19 avg rating — 110,372 ratings
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The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate 3.78 avg rating — 6,005 ratings
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History of the World Map by Map
History of the World Map by Map 4.55 avg rating — 882 ratings
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Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans
Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans 4.39 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Why Geography Matters More Than Ever
Why Geography Matters More Than Ever 3.56 avg rating — 394 ratings
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The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities 3.88 avg rating — 2,142 ratings
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The Tyranny of Distance
The Tyranny of Distance 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence 3.85 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Realms, Regions and Concepts
Realms, Regions and Concepts 3.52 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia 4.24 avg rating — 6,614 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 4.29 avg rating — 8,563 ratings
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Countries and Concepts: Politics, Geography, and Culture, Eighth Edition
Countries and Concepts: Politics, Geography, and Culture, Eighth Edition 3.82 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen
Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development
Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development 3.66 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine 4.12 avg rating — 89 ratings
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A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America
A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America 4.26 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The Geography Behind History
The Geography Behind History 3.16 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies 3.54 avg rating — 4,057 ratings
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World 3.33 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape 4.05 avg rating — 4,483 ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History 4.17 avg rating — 3,947 ratings
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Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba (Caribbean Studies Series)
Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba (Caribbean Studies Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World 4.07 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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My Weird School Fast Facts: Geography
My Weird School Fast Facts: Geography 4.28 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall 3.66 avg rating — 452 ratings
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National Geographic Investigates: Ancient Africa: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of Africa's Past
National Geographic Investigates: Ancient Africa: Archaeology Unlocks the Secrets of Africa's Past 3.81 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects 4.10 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame 4.21 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction
Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction 3.92 avg rating — 96 ratings
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National Geographic: The Photographs
National Geographic: The Photographs 4.35 avg rating — 2,673 ratings
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The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World 3.74 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian
Harbors and High Seas: An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian
by: Dean King
4.09 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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The Human Mosaic
The Human Mosaic 3.48 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map
The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map 3.77 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Approaches to Human Geography
Approaches to Human Geography 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Britannia Obscura: Mapping Hidden Britain
Britannia Obscura: Mapping Hidden Britain 3.43 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty 4.09 avg rating — 59,228 ratings
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Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings
Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings 4.21 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias
Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias 3.60 avg rating — 471 ratings
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A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels 3.72 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas 3.03 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico
Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps 3.85 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
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An Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842
An Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home 4.02 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology 3.82 avg rating — 13,929 ratings
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The Maps of Chickamauga: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863
The Maps of Chickamauga: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863 4.60 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins 3.94 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America 4.06 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
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The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts 3.37 avg rating — 952 ratings
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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past 3.74 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps 3.95 avg rating — 204 ratings
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A History of the World in 12 Maps
A History of the World in 12 Maps 3.76 avg rating — 1,752 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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A History of Florida through New World Maps: Borders of Paradise
A History of Florida through New World Maps: Borders of Paradise it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today
Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today 3.82 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Atlas of World War II: History's Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography
Atlas of World War II: History's Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (Volume 174) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (Volume 174) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America 3.89 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners 3.50 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
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Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations 3.09 avg rating — 950 ratings
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations 3.41 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders 4.23 avg rating — 8,122 ratings
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Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization
Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization 4.02 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Penguin Atlas of African History
The Penguin Atlas of African History 3.74 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Penguin Atlas of North American History to 1870
The Penguin Atlas of North American History to 1870 4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History 4.22 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will 4.23 avg rating — 4,768 ratings
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The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy
The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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An Atlas of Maritime Florida
An Atlas of Maritime Florida really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American South
The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American South 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Atlas of the Valley of the Kings: The Theban Mapping Project: Study Edition
Atlas of the Valley of the Kings: The Theban Mapping Project: Study Edition 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Historical Atlas of the Ancient World 4.000.000 - 500 BC
Historical Atlas of the Ancient World 4.000.000 - 500 BC 4.25 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign
The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign 4.22 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Historical Atlas of World War I (Henry Holt Reference Book)
The Historical Atlas of World War I (Henry Holt Reference Book) 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Fatal Shore
The Fatal Shore 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History 4.17 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity 4.13 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)
Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series) 3.78 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South
Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Big Whiskey: Kentucky Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, the Rebirth of Rye, and the Distilleries of America's Premier Spirits Region
Big Whiskey: Kentucky Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, the Rebirth of Rye, and the Distilleries of America's Premier Spirits Region really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does
Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does 3.91 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Railroading Around Dothan/Wiregrass Region (AL)
Railroading Around Dothan/Wiregrass Region (AL) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions
Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions 3.84 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Country: A Regional Exploration
Country: A Regional Exploration liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States (American Made Music Series)
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States (American Made Music Series) 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Folk Music: A Regional Exploration
Folk Music: A Regional Exploration 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture
Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815 4.10 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 4.19 avg rating — 14,289 ratings
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The American Southeast: A guide to Florida and Adjacent Shores
The American Southeast: A guide to Florida and Adjacent Shores really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision
Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans 3.73 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands 3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings
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