Pre-Columbian & Early Post-Columbian History of the Americas
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,181 ratings 2. 
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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Charles C. Mann
4.12 avg rating — 20,586 ratings 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 
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Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
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Brian M. Fagan
3.54 avg rating — 90 ratings 14. 
Ancient Mexico: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztecs and Other Pre-Columbian Peoples
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Longhena María
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
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Kim MacQuarrie
4.04 avg rating — 929 ratings 17. 
Kokopelli: The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of an Ancient Symbol
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Dennis Slifer
3.67 avg rating — 42 ratings 
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Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico
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Hugh Thomas
4.34 avg rating — 1,151 ratings 
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The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America
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George R. Milner
3.96 avg rating — 141 ratings 
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
by:
Craig Childs
4.20 avg rating — 2,411 ratings 
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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America 3.88 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
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One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark 4.22 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Four Corners: History, Land, and People of the Desert Southwest
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Kenneth A. Brown
3.63 avg rating — 63 ratings 
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American Environmental History: Part One
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Dan Allosso
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
by:
Buddy Levy
4.30 avg rating — 4,792 ratings 46. 
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
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Christina Snyder
4.16 avg rating — 116 ratings 46. 
The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choice, 1574-1821
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Patricia Seed
3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings 52. 
The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 3.72 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 3.99 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
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David D. Hall
3.81 avg rating — 203 ratings 
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The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
by:
Paul Chiasson
3.71 avg rating — 302 ratings 
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Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
by:
John L. Kessell
3.44 avg rating — 45 ratings 83. 
Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and Mexico, 1675-1706
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John L. Kessell
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 83. 
Precolumbian Architecture in Eastern North America (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Storms Brewed in Other Men’s Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540–1795 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
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J.M. Adovasio
4.04 avg rating — 351 ratings 87. 
The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest
by:
Marc Simmons
4.03 avg rating — 68 ratings 
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Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization
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Roger G. Kennedy
3.88 avg rating — 48 ratings 90. 
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
by:
Jake Page
3.96 avg rating — 417 ratings 91. 
Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
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Peter Nabokov
3.78 avg rating — 120 ratings 92. 
The First North Americans: An Archaeological Journey
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.63 avg rating — 87 ratings 
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Gender, Households, and Society: Unraveling the Threads of the Past and the Present
by:
Cynthia Robin
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Stories in Stone: Rock Art Pictures by Early Americans
by:
Caroline Arnold
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 97. 
Buried Beneath Us: Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas
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Anthony F. Aveni
3.11 avg rating — 45 ratings 98. 
Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America
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James M. Deem
3.91 avg rating — 110 ratings 99. 
Bipoints Before Clovis: Trans-Oceanic Migrations and Settlement of Prehistoric Americas
by:
Wm Jack Hranicky
3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 