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The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire
Ramiro Matos Mendieta (Editor), · Smithsonian Books
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This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan or Great Inca Road, an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than... |
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A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Stanley Weintraub · Da Capo Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Maos Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures,... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I
Nick Lloyd · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover |
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In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued - known as the Hundred Days Campaign - saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked... |
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First Pennsylvanians: The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania
Kurt W Carr · Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 256
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In First Pennsylvanians, Kurt Carr and Roger Moeller provide a broad, accessible, and wide-ranging overview of the archaeological record of Native Americans in Pennsylvania from early prehistory through the Paleoindian, Archaic, Transitional, Woodland, and Contact periods, stretching from... |
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