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A Country Of Vast Designs : James K. Polk And The Conquest Of The American Continent

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Robert Merry
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Book, Simon & Schuster, 2009
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Polk, James K. · (James Knox), · 1795-1849 · Presidents · United States · Biography · Politics and government · 1845-1849 · Territorial expansion · History · 19th century · Merry, Robert W., 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E417 .M1153 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E417 .M1153 2009	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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Feast Or Famine : Food And Drink In American Westward Expansion

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Reginald Horsman
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Book, University of Missouri Press, 2008
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This first comprehensive account of food and drink in the winning of the West describes the sustenance of successive generations of western pioneers. He covers regional frontiers, as well as the cuisines of groups such as fur traders, soldiers, miners, and Mormons, and discusses food shortages that resulted from poor preparation, temporary scarcity of game, marginal soil, or simply bad luck. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Drinking customs · West (U.S.) · History · 19th century · Food habits · Frontier and pioneer life · Cookery, American · Western style · Overland journeys to the Pacific · Social life and customs · Discovery and exploration · United States · Territorial expansion · Horsman, Reginald
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(LOWER LEVEL) GT2853.U5 H67 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	GT2853.U5 H67 2008	AVAILABLE

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Latin American Indigenous Warfare And Ritual Violence

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edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza
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Book, University of Arizona Press, 2007
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This groundbreaking multidisciplinary book presents significant essays on historical indigenous violence in Latin America from Tierra del Fuego to central Mexico. Together the chapters present a convincing argument that bloodshed and killing have been woven into the fabric of life in Latin America since remote antiquity.For the first time, expert subject-area work on indigenous violence?archaeological, osteological, ethnographic, historical, and forensic?has been assembled in one volume. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Indians · Warfare · Rites and ceremonies · Violence · Latin America · Human sacrifice · Social archaeology · Violence in art · Territorial expansion · Antiquities · Chacon, Richard J., 1959- · Mendoza, Ruben G
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(LOWER LEVEL) E59.W3 L37 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E59.W3 L37 2007	AVAILABLE

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Suffragists In An Imperial Age : U.S. Expansion And The Woman Question, 1870-1929

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Allison L. Sneider
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2008
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- Table of contents only
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Anthony as head of the National American Women Suffrage Association, argued that it was the “duty” of U.S. women to help lift the inhabitants of its new island possessions up from “barbarism” to “civilization,” a project that would presumably demonstrate the capacity of U.S. women for full citizenship and political rights. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Women · Suffrage · United States · History · Suffragists · Territorial expansion · 19th century · 20th century · Sneider, Allison L
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(LOWER LEVEL) JK1896 .S64 2008 DUE 09-17-09

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(LOWER LEVEL)	JK1896 .S64 2008	DUE 09-17-09

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Manifest Destinies And Indigenous Peoples

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Book, Harvard Univ Pr, 2009
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How was frontier expansion rationalized in the Americas during the late nineteenth century? He invited eight specialists to explore public narratives of the expansion of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the western regions of Canada and the United States during the late nineteenth century, a time when those who then identified as ?Americans? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Messianism, Political · History · Nationalism · 19th century · Indigenous peoples · America · Territorial expansion
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(LOWER LEVEL) JC314 .M36 2009 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	JC314 .M36 2009	AVAILABLE

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Frontiersman : Daniel Boone And The Making Of America

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Meredith Mason Brown
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Book, Louisiana State University Press, 2008
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The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. Boone did indeed kill Indians during the bloody fighting for Kentucky, but he also respected Indians, became the adopted son of a Shawnee chief, and formed lasting friendships with many Shawnees who once held him captive. Hundreds of thousands of settlers entered Kentucky on the road that Boone and his axemen blazed from the Cumberland Gap to the Kentucky River. Through his colorful chronicle of Boone’s experiences, Brown paints a rich portrayal of colonial and Revolutionary America, the relations between whites and Indians, the opening and settling of the Old West, and the birth of the American national identity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Boone, Daniel, · 1734-1820 · Influence · Relations with Indians · Pioneers · Kentucky · Biography · Explorers · Frontier and pioneer life · United States · Discovery and exploration · Missouri · Territorial expansion · Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F454.B66 B77 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F454.B66 B77 2008	AVAILABLE

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American Leviathan : Empire, Nation, And Revolutionary Frontier

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Patrick Griffin
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Book, 1st ed, Hill and Wang, 2007
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The war that raged along America’s frontier during the period of the American Revolution was longer, bloodier, and arguably more revolutionary than what transpired on the Atlantic coast. Patrick Griffin recaptures a chaotic world of settlers, Indians, speculators, British regulars, and American and state officials, vying with one another to remake the West during its most formative period. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Frontier and pioneer life · Ohio River Valley · West (U.S.) · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · To 1848 · United States · Territorial expansion · Influence · Griffin, Patrick, 1965-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F517 .G79 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F517 .G79 2007	AVAILABLE

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Lewis & Clark And The Indian Country : The Native American Perspective

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edited by Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson
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Book, University of Illinois Press, 2007
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Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country broadens the scope of conventional study of the Lewis and Clark expedition to include Native American perspectives. Nelson present the expedition’s long-term impact on the “Indian Country” and its residents through compelling interviews conducted with Native Americans over the past two centuries, secondary literature, Lewis and Clark travel journals, and other primary sources from the Newberry Library’s exhibit Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lewis, Meriwether, · 1774-1809 · Relations with Indians · Exhibitions · Clark, William, · 1770-1838 · Lewis and Clark Expedition · (1804-1806) · Influence · Culture conflict · West (U.S.) · History · 19th century · Indians of North America · Social life and customs · 20th century · Race relations · Description and travel · United States · Territorial expansion · Hoxie, Frederick E., 1947- · Nelson, Jay T
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(LOWER LEVEL) F592.7 .L496 2007 c.30109 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F592.7 .L496 2007 c.30109	AVAILABLE

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A People’s History Of American Empire : A Graphic Adaptation

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Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle
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Book, 1st ed, Metropolitan Books, 2008
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Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Zinn, Howard, · 1922- · Comic books, strips, etc · Imperialism · History · Social movements · United States · Comic books, strips, etc · Historians · Biography · Foreign relations · Territorial expansion · Social conditions · Zinn, Howard, 1922- · Konopacki, Mike · Buhle, Paul, 1944-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E183.7 .Z56 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E183.7 .Z56 2008	AVAILABLE

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Heartless Immensity : Literature, Culture, And Geography In Antebellum America

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Anne Baker
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Book, University of Michigan Press, 2006
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Comparisons to European empires, biblical allusions, body politic metaphors, and metaphors derived from science all reflected?and often attempted to assuage?fears that the nation was becoming either (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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American literature · 19th century · History and criticism · Imperialism in literature · National characteristics, American, in literature · Culture conflict in literature · Boundaries in literature · Geography in literature · Imperialism · Social aspects · United States · History · Literature and history · 19th century · Territorial expansion · Baker, Anne, 1968-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS217.I47 B35 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS217.I47 B35 2006	AVAILABLE

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Encyclopedia Of Western Colonialism Since 1450

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Thomas Benjamin, editor in chief
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Book, 1st ed, Macmillan Reference USA, 2007
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- Table of contents
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Colonies · History · Encyclopedias · Imperialism · Postcolonialism · Europe · Territorial expansion · Benjamin, Thomas, 1952-
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REFERENCE (MAIN) JV22 .E535 2007 v.1 AVAILABLE
REFERENCE (MAIN) JV22 .E535 2007 v.2 AVAILABLE
REFERENCE (MAIN) JV22 .E535 2007 v.3 AVAILABLE

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	JV22 .E535 2007 v.1	AVAILABLE
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Native America, Discovered And Conquered : Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, And Manifest Destiny

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Robert J. Miller ; foreword by Elizabeth Furse
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Book, Praeger Publishers, 2006
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In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Jefferson, Thomas, · 1743-1826 · Relations with Indians · Lewis and Clark Expedition · (1804-1806) · Indians of North America · Government relations · United States · Territorial expansion · Discovery and exploration · Race relations · Miller, Robert J
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(LOWER LEVEL) E93 .M582 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E93 .M582 2006	AVAILABLE

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The Indian Removal Act : Forced Relocation

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	973.04 St849i 2007	AVAILABLE

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Dangerous Nation

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Robert Kagan
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Book, 1st ed, Knopf, 2006
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He also makes a startling discovery: that the Civil War and the abolition of slavery?the fulfillment of the ideals of the Declaration?were the decisive turning point in the history of American foreign policy as well. Kagan’s brilliant and comprehensive reexamination of early American foreign policy makes clear why America, from its very beginning, has been viewed worldwide not only as a wellspring of political, cultural, and social revolution, but as an ambitious and, at times, dangerous nation. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States · Foreign relations · To 1865 · 1865-1921 · Territorial expansion · History · Foreign public opinion · Kagan, Robert
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(LOWER LEVEL) E183.7 .K34 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E183.7 .K34 2006	AVAILABLE

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Dominance By Design : Technological Imperatives And America’s Civilizing Mission

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Michael Adas
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Book, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006
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As an integral part of America’s national identity and sense of itself in the world, this civilizing mission provided the rationale to displace the Indians from much of our continent, to build an island empire in the Pacific and Caribbean, and to promote unilateral–at times military–interventionism throughout Asia. Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America’s foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Technology · United States · History · 20th century · Technological innovations · Messianism, Political · Foreign relations · Territorial expansion · Adas, Michael, 1943-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E744 .A243 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E744 .A243 2006	AVAILABLE

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