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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
""All men are created equal" is America's most cherished proposition. But for more than a century after Thomas Jefferson wrote those words, the Founding Fathers and their successors failed to extend the promise of the Declaration of Independence to blacks and Indians. Why? We take refuge in the notion that white people at the time were the prisoners of racist ideas and that we today are more enlightened. In this popular view, the history of America...
85) John Russwurm
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and achievements of the early spokesman against slavery who expressed his anti-slavery views in "Freedom's Journal," the first American newspaper owned and operated by Blacks.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1654, England's Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spain's vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, a large expedition sailed to the West Indies, under secret orders to take Spanish colonies. The English Conquest of Jamaica presents entrenched imperial fantasies confronting Caribbean realities. It captures the moment when the revolutionary English state first became a...
Author
Series
Canadian plains studies volume 65
Publisher
U of R Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics -- the politics of ethnocide -- played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream."
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists. Here's the true story of America from the Indigenous perspective. When you think about the beginning of the American story, what comes to mind? Three ships in 1492, or perhaps buckled hats and shoes stepping off of the Mayflower, ready to start a new country. But the truth is, Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims,...
91) Colonization of the F/V Calédonie Toho 2 wreck by a reef-fish assemblage near Nouméa (New Caledonia)
Author
Series
Atoll research bulletin volume no. 485
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Author
Series
General technical report PNW volume 664
Publisher
USDA, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Six of nine nonnative boreal conifers in three genera (Abies, Larix, and Pinus) regenerated in 11 to 31 years after they were introduced to mainland Alaska. Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engel.) and the Siberian larches (Larix sibirica Ledeb. and L. sukaczewii N. Dyl.) were the most widely introduced species and will likely be the first nonnative conifers to naturalize. Siberian larch grew up to six times more stem volume than white...
Author
Series
Report / 117th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 117-600
Publisher
[U.S. Government Publishing Office]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Author
Series
General technical report RMRS volume GTR-347
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Pub. Date
December 2015.
Language
English