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Mycology Guidebook
Russell Stevens Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0295958413 |
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Mycology Guidebook
Russell B. Stevens Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORHC9G |
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Mycology guidebook.
Myocological Society of America Mycology Guidebook Committee.Ed. by Russell B. Stevens. Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORQSBO |
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Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide
Thammy Evans Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1841620890 |
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Macedonia.......2007-03-30
Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide.......2006-08-28
big al.......2006-07-29
Very useful and very informative .......2006-07-15
Useful guide, with a pinch of salt.......2005-12-07
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Macedonia, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
Thammy Evans Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1841621862 |
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Great resource.......2007-07-31
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Chalmette : The Battle for New Orleans and How the British Nearly Stole the Louisiana Territory
Charles Patton Manufacturer: Hickory Tales Publishing, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0970910401 |
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Chalmette shows how the United States nearly lost the Louisiana Territory at the end of the War of 1812 and WHY the British were even at New Orleans. See how General Andrew Jackson manuevered thge British Army into a position where a rag tag militia could beat them. (longer description follows) Chalmette is not just another book about the Battle of New Orleans, but maybe for the first time you will understand WHY the British were there. This book shows how the United States nearly lost the Louisiana territory at the end of the War of 1812. In the summer of 1814 England had finaly conquered Napolean and France. After twenty-one years of tremendous struggle against the European continent, England had become a highly efficient war machine, They were left standing, a superpower. They had been carrying out a war in Europe with only an occasional jab at the United States. Now they were turning their full attention on that irritating loose association of states across the Atlantic. The United States had almost no standing army; they had only the militia that each community maintained for protection against indians. Most militia were a social club where men fired their weapons once a month. Therefore during the early part of the War of 1812 their performance was pretty dismal. The exception was in the western states (between the Applachians and the Mississippi River) where the militia was a working military force in frequent combat with Indians. These community militia from Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and a few from southern Ohio answered the call to join General Andrew Jackson to meet the British at New Orleans. Follow Jackson's militia as they manuever a far superior British Army into a position where Jackson's men had a better than even chance of winning. They had to subdue the British allies (the Creek indian Nation). And they had to stop any Spanish help at Pennsacola and Mobile (the best invasion point) and lastly had to get them to land in a spot almost impossible to support. It was the bleakest point in the history of the United States. The whole East Coast had been blockaded, raided and burned at will. British Canada uled the north and noe the English ere going to take New Orleans, control of the Mississippi River and the Louisiana Territory. With the United States almost completely boxed in, see how, with determination and luck, they pulled off a victory that electrified the united Staes and stunned Europe.Customer Reviews:
Battle for our nation's history.......2006-02-25
A VERY shallow over view.........2006-01-18
Chalmette.......2001-05-29
A Great History Lesson.......2001-05-25
American victory at the most crucial time........2001-05-24
Yet what a critical time it was for the American experiment in freedom and democracy. This book details in a fasinating way the background years and the intrigue surrounding negotiations to end the nation's war with England. The action then builds from late 1814 right up through the climax of the final battle. The reader will find himself unable to put this book down until the reading is finished. It's a great read, not only for the history buff but also for every patriotic American.
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Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Roger G. Kennedy Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0195153472 |
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Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system--particularly with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops (first tobacco, then cotton) sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period.Customer Reviews:
History Covered from a Different Angle.......2007-03-02
Socialistic drivel.......2005-06-07
Jeckyl/Hyde Jeffersonians.......2004-09-26
fascinating.......2004-07-19
First, the description of how the plantations east of the Allegheny Mountains were viewed as disposable by the men who ran them, since it was cheaper to buy new land on the frontier than properly maintain the land they currently possessed. Also, how these same men for various reasons and led by Jefferson resisted the industrialization that would diversified the economy of the south.
Second, how Jefferson and his allies catered to the land gluttony displayed by those early planters as new land was acquired for the United States. This was largely accomplished by dispossessing the people inconveniently already settling the land, and handing large swathes of land over to slave-holding planters emigrating from the lands they had exhausted.
Kennedy in fact dwells for much of the book on the territory of Florida (expanding beyond the current borders of that state across much of the South) possessed by Spain and settled prior to US acquisition by a mixture of Indians, whites and blacks who out of neccessity practiced sustainable agriculture on a small scale. I found the picture of Florida in that period to be one of the particularly interesting parts of the book. The relationship between the US and the people already settled on lands it wished to acquire (especially Indians), using Florida as a case study, was enlightening.
Kennedy provides some critical information for evaluating Jefferson's political leadership on the most compelling moral issue facing the young republic-the endurance and expansion of slavery within its boundaries. First, although the debate in Congress during his presidency over the expansion of slavery into new territories was very close, Jefferson refrained from using his influence to lead in this controversy. Thus, his anti-slavery rhetoric was saved for moments in his life (early and late in his career) when it was unlikely to influence policy, and perhaps as no coincidence his self-interest and the interest of his landed friends. Indeed, once Jefferson's agriculturally impoverished land would no longer yield a profit, rather than join other planters heading west, he decided he could support himself most easily by breeding slaves to be sold to those emigrants. In this way, the man who despised the merchant and industrial classes for their supposed lack of moral character, supported his own extravagent lifestyle. In this, as on many other issues, Jefferson was an impressively self-indulgent hypocrite. Sadly, this supposedly great president was striking for his lack of will and vision on how best to establish a republic in which the AVERAGE citizen would have a reasonable opportunity to pursue happiness.
I would have liked to have given this book 4 1/2 stars, because there was a certain lack of organization, and some parts were confusing, so I can't say it was perfectly written. But I found the subject matter truly eye-opening and heartily recommend it to anyone interested in the subject matter.
If I could give it a zero, I would........2004-06-11
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Brief history of the Louisiana territory,
Walter Robinson Smith Manufacturer: St. Louis News Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000867VLM |
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The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1812 (University of California Publications in History, V. 10.)
Everett Somerville Brown Manufacturer: Lawbook Exchange Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1584771518 |
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Brown, Everett S. The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase 1803-1812. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1920. xi, 248 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-151-8. Cloth. $75. Originally published as Volume X of the University of California Publications in History series, Herbert E. Bolton, editor. With access to manuscripts never before utilized, Brown provides a coherent and interesting narrative that describes how the legislators of that time interpreted the constitution while dealing with the issues that arose as a consequence of the purchase of Louisiana. For example, an issue of far-reaching significance is the issue of slavery that was raised and debated decades before it became the issue that divided the country during the Senate debate on the Louisiana Government Bill. This work offers the first published account of that important debate.
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The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike to headwaters of the Mississippi River through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7
Zebulon Montgomery Pike Manufacturer: Ross & Haines ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DUCSU |
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The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, To Headwaters of the Mississippi River, Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7 Limited Edition
Elliott Coues Manufacturer: FRANCIS P HARPER ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDEGF2 |
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The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7. A new edition, now first reprinted in full from the original of 1810, with copious critical commentary, memoir of Pike, new map and other illustrations, and complete index, by Elliott Coues.
Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813). PIKE Manufacturer: Francis P. Harper ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OFZAC4 |
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The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7. A new edition, now first reprinted in full from the original of 1810, with copious critical commentary, memoir of Pike, new map and other illustrations, and complete index, by Elliott Coues.
Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813). PIKE Manufacturer: Ross & Haines ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OG1A54 |
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Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America Comprising a Voyage From St. Louis on teh Misissippi, to the Source of That River and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-Eastern Provinces of New Spain.
Zebulon Montgomery Pike Manufacturer: W.H. Lawrence & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WU33KM |
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An exposition of the criminal laws of the territory of Orleans: The practice of the courts of criminal jurisdiction, the duties of their officers, with ... forms for the use of magistrates and others
Lewis Kerr Manufacturer: Wm.W. Gaunt ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0912004320 |
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Nofrontiere : In the Place of Coincidence
Alexander Szadeczky , Peter Blakeney , and Ralf Herms Manufacturer: Gingko Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1584230142 |
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Nofrontiere is a world where there are no necessary distinctions, a delirious world held together by hidden and shifting relationships between the multiple disciplines, cultures and perceptions that intersect in a special corner of Vienna. This multimaniac studio is an experimental zone where the flow of interaction reveals unexpected synchronicities. Through the illumination of these collisions in everyday life, Nofrontiere is able to respond to conditions conventional methods of design might misappropriate with derivative solutions.In the Place of Coincidence, [co]Operating System 3.0, is a fusion of hybrid design methodologies and diverse visions and interpretations of our cultural morphoses. Within a vibrant labyrinth of idea spaces, random passages unravel the secrets of projects such as the award-winning Sigmund Freud CD-ROM: Archaeology of the Unconscious, the installations for the Jewish Museum in Vienna and the Europrix Mediatecture Event.
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More Catalog than 2.0.......2000-06-08
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