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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-06 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Language: en
Pages: 303
Pages: 303
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-23 - Publisher: Ohio University Press
The history of US imperialism remains incomplete without this consideration of long-overlooked nineteenth-century American commercial and whaling ventures in th
Language: en
Pages: 186
Pages: 186
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
In The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution, describing how aspirations to political
Language: en
Pages: 281
Pages: 281
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-09 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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