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Lexile measure
1310L
Language
English
Description
The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality--in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the founding of Kievan Rus in the first millennium to Putin's war against Ukraine, Orlando Figes explores the ideas that have guided Russia's actions throughout its long and troubled existence. Whether he's describing the crowning of Ivan the Terrible or the dramatic upheaval of the peasant revolution, he reveals the impulses that have driven Russian history. How the Russians came to tell their story and to revise as they went along is not only...
Author
Series
Hispania antigua volume 1
Publisher
"L'Erma" di Bretschneider
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Series
New German historical perspectives volume 4
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
"The common assumption that the United States is a "nation of immigrants" camouflages the reality that the US is a colonialist settler state"--
Many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US's history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all...