The Course of EmpireTracing 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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Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictDeVoto won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his series on the settling of the American West. The Course of the Empire traces the history of North America over a period of 278 ... Leer comentario completo
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 Mississippi | 116 |
The Heartland 176 | 129 |
Vérendryes Progress | 204 |
TwelveYear Armistice | 231 |
Jonathan Carvers North America | 249 |
Prime Meridian | 263 |
The Kentucky Merchant | 272 |
Escalantes Journey | 295 |
Equinoctial Tide | 315 |
The Northwest Coast | 325 |
The Heartland | 131 |
Converging Frontiers | 159 |
The World Turned Upside Down | 195 |
The Canoe Route Lake Superior | 197 |
The Canadian West 1790s | 352 |
The Santa Fe Trail | 361 |
The Passage to India | 487 |
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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 |
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Course of Empire Mariner books |
| Autor | Bernard De Voto |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa, reeditada |
| Editor | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0395924987, 9780395924983 |
| Largo | 647 páginas |
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