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Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[c1961]
Description
The enduring appeal of the desert is strikingly portrayed in this poetic study, which has become a classic of the American Southwest. First published in 1903, it is the work of Mary Austin (1868–1934), a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, who was also an ardent early feminist and champion of Indians and Spanish-Americans. She is best known today for this enchanting paean to the vast, arid, yet remarkably beautiful lands that lie east...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1967
Description
"Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 -- a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II."--Publisher description
Author
Series
Burt Franklin research and source works volume 516
American classics in history and social science volume 138
American classics in history and social science volume 138
Publisher
B. Franklin
Pub. Date
[1970]
Author
Description
The most celebrated work of a 16th-century woodcut master, these 41 illustrations are a stark reminder of a dramatic motif: "Remember, you will die." A meticulous reprint of the unabridged 1538 edition, this book includes a prefatory letter by Jean de Vauzèle plus various quotations, depictions, and meditations on death.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1986
Description
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But as Alfred W. Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more...
