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This anthology of historical essays provides interpretive perspective on details of Iowa's past. Gathered from a variety of sources, each of the 17 essays is individually introduced and followed by a bibliographical note. ... Read more

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Bring this book back in print
I concur with Professor Kellogg.I am teaching Iowa History this spring (2006) and I have learned that the book is out of print. It is a shame, since it was such a great book to use with Dorthy Schwieder'sIowa: The Middle Land.

Bergman's collection of stories,(some available in Annuals of Iowa) is a nice grouping of Iowa History.From early native americans, to the abortion battles in the 70s this is a very good telling of Iowa history through the writings of some of Iowa's best historians.

Tom Gary

Iowa History Reader
This is a wonderful book to explore the various aspects of Iowa history.While the book doesn't concentrate on any one subject of Iowas' history it does give the reader a broad look at both local and statewide issues dealing with Native Americans to the Iowa Primaries.It is a well balanced even-handed account of Iowa and Iowans.What I fail to understand is why the book is currently out of print.Iowan history instructors and professors find this a valuable teaching tool and a good anthology of Iowa writers on Iowa issues. ... Read more

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The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement became law in 1993. ClaimingNunavut traces the Nunavut Inuit Land Claim from its roots in 1971 to the birth ofNunavut in 1999. From the mid 1500's onwards, the Inuit of Canada's Eastern Arctic beganto experience the effects of colonialism in their homeland. This began with earlyEuropean explorers and traders and eventually, in the 1960's led to police services, amilitary presence, and money economy, and the herding of Inuit into small settlements.

Negative colonial influences eventually led to the formation ofthe Inuit Tapirisat in 1971 and the desire for Inuit to create Nunavut, a new Territoryand the first change to the map of Canada since 1949. Inuit succeeded in theirnegotiations, and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement was passed through CanadianParliament in 1993. This passing decreed that Nunavut would be formed in 1999. This booktraces the Inuit lobby from 1971-1993 and the implementation of Nunavut from 1993-1999.This is the story of the Inuit who were at the forefront of this massive undertaking.

Nunavut is the first and only modern day treaty in Canada thatcalls for a new Territory. This is a direct result of the Inuit desire to have theability to manage their land and resources in a way that reflects Inuit values andtradition.

The author, Stephen Mercer, lived in Nunavut from 1989to 2003 and was fortunate to know many of the main personalities on a personal basis. ... Read more

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Good text
I found this book to be an excellent text--especially from a historical perspective. There is of course a good bit of "bias", which cannot be completely avoided in anything. It is a fairly scholarly read, but not unapproachable. The author spends nearly the entire book giving a detailed account of the country from its founding to today (and includes a good bit about Haiti as well). Though the culture of a country is certainly affected by its history, there was little "practical information" on the people and culture today. This was my main disappointment. The end of the book contains a helpful glossary of "frequently used Dominicanisms" as well as a section on "What makes the language of Quisqueya different"

Historical and Cultural Jewel
This particular book by Professor Cambeira is truly a jewel in terms of its historical and cultural content and its unique treatment. Unlike any other book of this kind that I have read for its clarity in presentation. This is not your ordinary history textbook, but rather a highly personalized and lucid and informed interpretation of a community's evolution. I like how the Professor, who is Dominican, convinces the reader of his honesty. He says what many other Dominican writers don't say about our country, especially concerning certain questions of identity and the notion of inclusion in the formation of what we call dominicanidad. I also like the way Cambeira's writing style flows so gracefully. His nonfiction style is like his lyrical fiction that I found in his novels Azucar! The Story of Sugar and the sequel Azucar's Sweet Hope...Her Story Continues.

Cambeira is a wonderful writer in every sense.

High Recommended Reading.

His latest novel Azucar's Sweet Hope...Her Story Continues is the Best Novel I've read in a long time !

Intelligent Focus
This definitely is a timely book with very valuable and insightful information given the current very tragic situation in the island shared by the two republics. Cambeira's intelligent focus and keen interpretation of the island's development in every sense helped me better understand especially the Dominican culture that most of us know so little about. I am sure many readers who are curious about Caribbean cultures will find this work extremely informative.
I also recommend this writer's new novel Azucar! The Story of Sugar.

Suggested Reading for a Popular Play
I am very impressed by this unusual perspective on Dominican history and culture by the Dominican writer Alan Cambeira. Cambeira's work is not your conventional history text. It reads more like an interest sustaining novel; It also presents some cultural aspects most writers on the subject usually omit or avoid altogether. I also found a surprising side issue: the theatrical version of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Fiesta Del Chivo (The Festival of the Goat) is in production by the well respected Repertorio Espanol and has an accompanying Study Guide done by Iliana Fuentes. I see that Ms Fuentes also lists Cambeira's book as a part of the suggested reading in this regard. To me, then, Cambeira has a winner. His book is definitely worth the read. ...

Bravo Cambeira!

Quisqueya La Bella"Athens of the New World"
Everybody called Quisqueya the "Athens of the New World".
It is a country with beautiful beaches and beautiful people and a complex history. The island's ethnic mix of indigenuous, European (mainly Spanish) and African cultures and their merger across time resulted in the distinctive Dominican culture that we know today. Cambeira's passion for his native island is evident on every page. This book gave me a really different and fresh perspective from other books on the subject by otherauthors that I have read. This is an excellent personal interpretation that I'm recommending to anyone interested in learning about the Atena del Nuevo Mundo.Thanks to the Author. My next reading will certainly be his novel that everybody is talking about: Azucar! The Story of Sugar. ... Read more

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Although popularly conceived as a relatively recent phenomenon, patterns of immigrant smuggling and undocumented entry across American land borders first emerged in the late nineteenth century. Ingenious smugglers and immigrants, long and remote boundary lines, and strong push-and-pull factors created porous borders then, much as they do now. Historian Patrick Ettinger offers the first comprehensive historical study of evolving border enforcement efforts on American land borders at the turn of the twentieth century. He traces the origins of widespread immigrant smuggling and illicit entry on the northern and southern United States borders at a time when English, Irish, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Lebanese, Japanese, Greek, and, later, Mexican migrants created various "backdoors" into the United States. No other work looks so closely at the sweeping, if often ineffectual, innovations in federal border enforcement practices designed to stem these flows. From upstate Maine to Puget Sound, from San Diego to the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, federal officials struggled to adapt national immigration policies to challenging local conditions, all the while battling wits with resourceful smugglers and determined immigrants. In effect, the period saw the simultaneous "drawing" and "erasing" of the official border, and its gradual articulation and elaboration in the midst of consistently successful efforts to undermine it. ... Read more

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Enforcement of Undocumented Immigrants on the Border Between 1882 and 1930
This study, an outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation, explores some aspects of the history of immigration into the Unites States. The work focuses on the history of smuggling, undocumented immigration, and border enforcement around the beginning of the 20th century.

Professor Patrick Ettinger of California State University, Sacramento, has shown that attempts to stop the flow of undocumented immigration resulted in considerable political problems and was seen as an area which as early as the 1880s took the time of federal authorities. He also shows how illicit immigration was not only prevalent on the Mexican border, but also on the Canadian border. It is shown that immigrants of different nationalities used the land borders to avoid American restrictions on immigration. The Canadian and Mexican borders, according to Ettinger, changed dramatically with very few changes in policies and practices.

This reviewer found this book to be a highly specialized study with a brilliant assessment of how border enforcement efforts and undocumented immigration can be read as a story of both continuity and profound change.

Reviewed by Claude Ury ... Read more

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“Are you an American, or are you not?” This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-Cohen’s provocative history, which ties that seemingly remote corner of the country to one of America’s central concerns: the historical creation of racial boundaries.

It was in Cochise County that the Earps and Clantons fought, Geronimo surrendered, and Wheeler led the infamous Bisbee Deportation, and it is where private militias patrol for undocumented migrants today. These dramatic events animate the rich story of the Arizona borderlands, where people of nearly every nationality—drawn by “free” land or by jobs in the copper mines—grappled with questions of race and national identity. Benton-Cohen explores the daily lives and shifting racial boundaries between groups as disparate as Apache resistance fighters, Chinese merchants, Mexican-American homesteaders, Midwestern dry farmers, Mormon polygamists, Serbian miners, New York mine managers, and Anglo women reformers.

Racial categories once blurry grew sharper as industrial mining dominated the region. Ideas about home, family, work and wages, manhood and womanhood all shaped how people thought about race. Mexicans were legally white, but were they suitable marriage partners for “Americans”? Why were Italian miners described as living “as no white man can”? By showing the multiple possibilities for racial meanings in America, Benton-Cohen’s insightful and informative work challenges our assumptions about race and national identity.

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Racial Division and Labor War in Arizona
Professor Cohen of Georgetown University provides a history of Cochise County in Arizona within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. One is shown how racial boundaries and national identity were created. The latter is related to current immigration reform debates. The daily lives and racial boundaries between such groups as Chinese merchants, midwestern dry farmers, New York managers, and Anglo-American reformers.

One is shown from this brilliant analysis how the Arizona/Mexican border was the scene of most amazing, vigilant actions of United States history, which took place on July 12, 1917. The event came to be known throughout America as the Bisbee Deportation.

During the nineteenth century, the abolition of slavery in the tenth and fifteenth amendments decreased racial factors concerning U.S. citizenship. Cochine County, Arizona enables one to understand the histories of race and nation in the U.S.

This study is based on the assertion that ideas about race and nation cannot be separated from peoples' opinions about class, gender, and family. It could use a bibliography.

Reviewed by Claude Ury

Amazing story, brilliantly told
Although the Bisbee Deportation has been written about in other places, no one has gotten as close to the complex heart of the story as Benton-Cohen.A native of the region, she combines the skill of a trained historian with the interest of someone who knows the area and its multi-racial inhabitants.Americans who don't live at our borders like to think of them as lines with distinct cultures on either side, but Benton-Cohen demonstrates that the Borderlands are anything but clear, and she does so in an intelligent and accessible way.

Compelling story of racial politics in Arizona
Benton-Cohen tells nuanced and very readable history of race relations on the Arizona borderlands.Outlaws, homesteading families, American Indians, African-Americans, and Mexican, European, and Chinese immigrants negotiate complex relationships of gender, race, social class and power as they struggle to survive and to define what it meant to be an American.A must-read for anyone interested in Arizona or borderlands history, this book also complicates our understanding of contemporary race relations and immigration policy. ... Read more

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Baltimore: When She Was What She Used to Be takes an affectionate look back at the city during an earlier era. More than 250 handsome vintage photographs and a selection of period newspaper and magazine stories recapture a bygone time with warmth and fidelity. Using never-before-published photographs reproduced with care and craftsmanship, Mame and Marion Warren capture the essence of American city life from the Civil War to the Great Depression: its joys and sorrows, the growth of industry and institutions, how a city worked and how it took its leisure, tranquil parks and bustling wharfs, change and continuity. This is a book to reward the attention of anyone interested in Baltimore itself or in the use of photographs to weave a story--and cast a spell--replete with history, nostalgia, and humor.

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Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Río Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cárdenas government's effort to make cotton the basis of the national economy.

This irrigation district, built and settled by Mexican Americans repatriated from Texas, was a central feature of Mexico's effort to control and use the waters of the international river for irrigated agriculture.

Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Casey Walsh discusses the relations among various groups comprising the "social field" of cotton production in the borderlands. By describing the complex relationships among these groups, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development.

Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Walsh's important transnational study will enjoy a wide audience among scholars of Latin American and Western U.S. history, the borderlands, and environmental and agricultural history, as well as anthropologists and others interested in the environment and water rights. ... Read more

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To the surprise of many, the United States has emerged as a commercial source of what some gem experts consider the world's finest sapphire. Equally surprising is that the entire production of the gem comes from a little-known Montana mine named Yogo, which 60 years earlier had produced $25 million in fine-cut sapphires for the British.Yogo is a historical treasure, but the story of Yogo sapphires is really just a beginning, for only now are South American diamonds, Colombian emeralds, and Burmese rubies being belatedly joined by a native American precious gemstone that is every bit their equal the Montana sapphire. The colorful story of the Montana mine that produces the prized Yogo sapphires has been updated in this revised edition. Included is the demise of Intergem and the humble beginning of Vortex, Inc. ... Read more

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A truly American story
This well-researched history tells the story of the gorgeous blue Yogo sapphires. It's a bit of a wild west tale full of prospectors and speculators as people tried to make money of these beautiful stones. The book makes great use of archives using newspaper stories from various eras to add heft to the research. If you are interested in gemstones or Montana history this is definitely worth a read.

Yogo The Great American Sapphire
Having grown up near this area of Montana, I was familiar with Yogo sapphires, but wanted to know more.The text lays out all the facts and colourful stories about these most glorious gems.It was an interesting and delightful read and I recommend it to anyone interested in history, Montana and especially precious gemstones.It was also a bonus to learn about Charlie Russell's association with the story.He lived in my town.

Great history book
This book is not a gemological type book.It is more of a history book with a lot of interesting Montana history.It is definately worth the read.Yogo Sapphires are beautiful gemstones.That's why we use them in our jewelry at forgetmenotjewelry.com.

Engrossing
This is a well-written, and fairly well-illustrated, account of a very obscure, but fascinating chapter in mining history---specifically the Yoga sapphires of Montana, which are arguably the finest blue sapphires in the world

Americana-rich story of Montana's Yogo Gulch sapphire mine.
If you own a sapphire from Yogo Gulch, you own a piece of history, so you might as well know the whole story behind your stone and the mine it came from. Steve Voynick, a bona-fide hard-rock miner and talented writer, tells the whole Yogo story from Pig Eye Basin and J.P. Morgan to the present prospects for this century-old gemstone claim. Detail-rich photographs help you get a better picture of the people and the times. Western mining Americana at its finest ... Read more

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My thoughts and how I feel.
This is a wonderful book in my view, I feel that the author did a very nice job. I thought it was written beautifully and intellegently. I would recommend this book this book to anyonecurious about Eskimos and Aleuts.I very much enjoyed it, especially because I ampart Athabascan and Ienjoyed reading about another tribe.

thank you all foryour time,

Lady Love ... Read more

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This book is a documentation and artistic preservation of the history and culture of the Gullah People along the Carolina Lowcountry. This Gullah-Geechee culture came from West Africa and was passed down by Sea Island slaves to subsequent generations. Therefore, this culture has survived despite many changes and displacements. The people of this area are aware of their culture and traditions and are still living in these isolated areas by choice. And though some communities that were isolated and tucked away way for decades are now seeing their land in great demand for development, they continue to live as they have for generations. They have created a kind of living history, or a Historic Living Museum. Their history comes alive within the pages of this book, which includes illustrations and pictures by the author. ... Read more

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Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on the river to supply cities in the desert render this new edition all too timely. Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface. ... Read more

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Holy crap, what a depressing book.
This book is a real downer.
Even the cover is.
Even the title!The Colorado River's not a river anymore?It's true.Can you turn a river on and off?Can you control how fast a river flows?(That sounds more like...a DITCH!)
The Colorado is the most regulated river in America.Over forty dams control its water, and with a word from the right people, its flow can be stopped just like that.
The river starts in the mountains north of Grand Junction, Colorado, gets drained right away into various canals, and what's left runs from there into a couple of small reservoirs and into Utah.It runs past the over two thousand natural arches of Arches National Park, and on to Moab.
The river rushes past the mouth of the Green River, heads on through Canyonlands National Park, and eventually, stops in Lake Powell.It goes on, though.Alive, but less alive: hidden underneath Lake Powell, then through the dam, then coursing blue and green and silt-free, like it never was, down past Lees Ferry and through the Grand Canyon, with never a flood to wash out the tamarisk, and temperatures too cold for any native fish to live in.So cold and so different that four of the Grand Canyon's eight native species of fish are now extinct.Gone forever.
Then the river's under Lake Mead, and then it's squeezing through another dam.After that it's trying to keep Nevada and California from Arizona, and it's going through three more reservoirs, and even more dams.Dam.Dam.Dam.
What'd the fish say when it hit a wall?
Dam.
Then, it's the Rio Colorado: same thing, but in Spanish, and less of it.It runs the Baja-Sonora state line in Mexico, trickles through some dying wetlands, and sometimes, in rare flood years, makes it to the Gulf of California.The ocean.
...But it almost never makes it that far anymore.
The river is now very, very useful to people...but is it still a river?And is what we've done right?
This book is a good examination of that question, of the river's sad tributaries, and of the state of the river itself.It's very factual, open in its biases, only occasionally slow and meandering, and it is dense with valuable (though sometimes out-of-date) information.
Read this and learn.Read this and be enlightened.Read this and be depressed and angered out of your skull...but read it. ... Read more

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In this original examination of alcohol production in early America, Sarah Hand Meacham uncovers the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake. Her fascinating story is one defined by gender, class, technology, and changing patterns of production.

Alcohol was essential to colonial life; the region's water was foul, milk was generally unavailable, and tea and coffee were far too expensive for all but the very wealthy. Colonists used alcohol to drink, in cooking, as a cleaning agent, in beauty products, and as medicine. Meacham finds that the distillation and brewing of alcohol for these purposes traditionally fell to women. Advice and recipes in such guidebooks as The Accomplisht Ladys Delight demonstrate that women were the main producers of alcohol until the middle of the 18th century. Men, mostly small planters, then supplanted women, using new and cheaper technologies to make the region's cider, ale, and whiskey.

Meacham compares alcohol production in the Chesapeake with that in New England, the middle colonies, and Europe, finding the Chesapeake to be far more isolated than even the other American colonies. She explains how home brewers used new technologies, such as small alembic stills and inexpensive cider pressing machines, in their alcoholic enterprises. She links the importation of coffee and tea in America to the temperance movement, showing how the wealthy became concerned with alcohol consumption only after they found something less inebriating to drink.

Taking a few pages from contemporary guidebooks, Every Home a Distillery includes samples of historic recipes and instructions on how to make alcoholic beverages. American historians will find this study both enlightening and surprising.

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Combining an analysis of Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest up to the reign of Muhammad 'Ali, an overview of its main architectural styles, a descriptive catalog of the major monuments, and a discussion of domestic architecture, this concise and comprehensive study will appeal to specialists as well as beginning students and interested lay readers. ... Read more

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The collectable coffee table book of fine arts includes numerous artists of Michigan; one of the Great Lake states. From the Northern Seas to the call of the wild, each artist represents their love of nature and this wondrous state. Known as the "Mitten" to many or to the indigenous peoples as "Greensky" by the natives of Michigan.In our presentation of individual artisans are a collection of oil and acrylic painters, watercolorists, pastel artists, a traditional glass blower, a stone sculptor, a wood carver, a metal sculptress, and a potterer. Each one of the artists is uniquely gifted and versatile as many write books and poetry, or are in dance or other performing arts as well. The author of this presentation: Phyllis A.H. Dobson worked many long hours to produce their mini-biographies and their beautiful works. If you wish to support the arts by purchasing a work from the artists or copies of Fine Arts of the Great Lakes, please contact authorHOUSE at 888.280.7715. ... Read more

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When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses of visual documentation at Angel Island for Chinese immigrants, at Ellis Island for European immigrants, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Including fascinating close visual analysis and detailed histories of immigrants in addition to the perspectives of officials, this richly illustrated book traces how visual regulations became central in the early development of U.S. immigration policy and in the introduction of racial immigration restrictions. In so doing, it provides the historical context for understanding more recent developments in immigration policy and, at the same time, sheds new light on the cultural history of American photography. ... Read more

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Maryland: A Middle Temperament explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state" its special character. Extensively illustrated and accompanied by bibliography, maps, charts, and tables, Robert Brugger's vivid account of the state's political, economic, social, and cultural heritage -- from the outfitting of Cecil Calvert's expedition to the opening of Baltimore's Harborplace -- is rich in the issues and personalities that make up Maryland's story and explain its "middle temperament."

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Best Single Volume Maryland History out there
Granted the book stops at the dawn of the internet and biotech age and housing boom that has transformed MD's economic and social fabric, it is still the best single volume history of the state availible.Brugger carefully examines the main themes of Maryland's history and ties them all together with the state's penchant for tolerance and moderation.An excellent book for reference or research on the Old Line State/Free State.

Maryland : A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980
This is a great survey book for anyone interested in learning about Maryland's history.It touches on all the major themes in the great state's history and how they related to the national landscape. ... Read more

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The papers in this book focus on several themes: the identification of Indian motives; the degree to which Indians were discriminating consumers and creative participants; and the extent of the native dependency on the trade. It spans the period from the seventeenth century up to and including the twentieth century. In one of the key essays, Arthur J. Ray questions the theory that modern native welfare societies are of recent origin, and traces their roots to the early fur trade. Papers by Charles A. Bishop, Toby Morantz and Carol Judd focus on the North Algonquians in the eastern subarctic and earlier centuries of the trade, while two final essays by Shepard Krech, and Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach shift the focus to the North Athapascans in the western subarctic. ... Read more

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This work is the second of a two-volume set that presents a chronological, narrative history of America, with a blend of political, social, cultural and economic history. The fourth edition devotes more attention to the theme of the frontier in American history. ... Read more

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THIS IS PART 2
This is PART 2, though you would not know that by is being indicated almost no where. Great i waited for a 40$ book which i cant use for my class or sell back. Amazon FTL.

america a narrative history brief seventh edition vo. 2
I have never received the book I ordered. Emails to the sender are not answered. I filed a complaint with Amazon asking for a complete refund, I haven't heard from Amazon regarding this, only that it's being looked into. I order a fair amount from Amazon, I will be VERY careful from now on and look elsewhere first. I have given a rating of 1 star but only b/c the computer wouldn't publish this review without checking a star. In reality I give it-0.

good for history class
using it and it gives the information that you need in good perspective. An easy read!

Great Book
If you want a book with straight facts about America, this great history book is it.

An impressive study and an easy read
A huge book that traces the history of America from pre-Columbus through present day. Although considered by many to be a "text book" for study, it is not written in that format. It reads easily and clearly. It isnon-biased and informative. The pictures are helpful. It's the first bookon American history that I have been able to finish. Although expensive, Ithink that every book collection should have a copy and it is an essentialpart of any history collection. ... Read more

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Although immigrants enter the United States from virtually every nation, Mexico has long been identified in the public imagination as one of the primary sources of the economic, social, and political problems associated with mass migration. Between Two Worlds explores the controversial issues surrounding the influx of Mexicans to America. The eleven essays in this anthology provide an overview of some of the most important interpretations of the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Mexican diaspora. ... Read more

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Just Great
The book was in the condition that was promised and I'm very satisfied with my purchase. ... Read more