The Course of EmpireHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - 647 páginas Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805. |
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Contenido
The Children of the Sun | 3 |
The Spanish Entrances | 37 |
The Spectrum of Knowledge | 51 |
Early Ideas of North America | 56 |
The Northwestern Mystery | 76 |
The Iron Men | 83 |
The West to the 1670s | 101 |
The Mississippi | 116 |
The Kentucky Merchant | 272 |
Escalantes Journey | 295 |
Equinoctial Tide | 315 |
The Northwest Coast | 325 |
The Canadian West 1790s | 352 |
The Santa Fe Trail | 361 |
The Gates of the Continent 380381 | 380 |
A More Perfect Union | 383 |
Hudson Bay Region | 125 |
The Heartland | 131 |
Converging Frontiers | 159 |
The Heartland | 176 |
The World Turned Upside Down | 195 |
The Canoe Route Lake Superior | 197 |
Vérendryes Progress | 204 |
The Armed Frontier | 221 |
TwelveYear Armistice | 231 |
Jonathan Carvers North America | 249 |
Prime Meridian | 263 |
Westward the Course of Empire | 435 |
Fur Company Posts | 453 |
The Route of Lewis and Clark 472473 | 472 |
The Passage to India | 487 |
The Dilemma of Lewis and Clark 500501 | 500 |
The Race to the Pacific 532533 | 533 |
Comparative Dates | 557 |
Notes | 561 |
Bibliography Annotation and Minutiae | 633 |
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Referencias a este libro
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of ... Wallace Stegner Sin vista previa disponible - 1992 |
New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery William H. Goetzmann Vista de fragmentos - 1995 |