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In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.
In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience...
3) We Americans
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1975
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456 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
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English
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English
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"A superb analysis of American paranoia . . . a terrific, measured, objective study of one of American culture's most loaded topics." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Conspiracies have been woven through America's social tapestry since the beginning of its history. The United States of Paranoia is a unique and fascinating look at how these commonly held beliefs—true or not—have helped shape the American cultural...
Conspiracies have been woven through America's social tapestry since the beginning of its history. The United States of Paranoia is a unique and fascinating look at how these commonly held beliefs—true or not—have helped shape the American cultural...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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370 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--
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English
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"After a decade abroad, the National Book Award--and Pulitzer Prize--winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States-Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury"--
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English
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Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Winner of the AIP Science Communication Award
An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction)
Booklist Editors' Choice (Science & Technology)
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xvii, 612 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, some color ; 24 cm
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English
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"The Spanish Craze: America's Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779-1939 examines the centuries-long fascination with the history, art, culture, and architecture of Spain in the United States from the Early Republic to the New Deal"--
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English
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The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today. Gibson explains that our nation's Spanish roots have often been unacknowledged or marginalized. Here she chronicles the sweeping and dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century to the present, with the recent tragedy of post-hurricane...
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2021.
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English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, diplomats, music legends and sports giants explore the grand American experiment in democracy, culture, innovation and ideas, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is--and what it can be.
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