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  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Diamond, Jared
    Jared Diamond

    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

    In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in...
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  • Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain by Goldman, Lawrence
    Lawrence Goldman

    Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain

    A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of...
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  • From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra: Making of a Historical Tradition by Sinha, Kanad
    Kanad Sinha

    From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra: Making of a Historical Tradition

    Is it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of History? The book begins with this question, and points out how the ways of perceiving the past could be culture-specific and how the concept of historical traditions can be useful in studying the...
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  • Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future by Bowlby, Rachel
    Rachel Bowlby

    Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future

    What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see....
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  • The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire by Fitzpatrick, Matthew P.
    Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

    The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire

    Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a constitutional monarch like many other...
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  • London in the Roman World by Perring, Dominic
    Dominic Perring

    London in the Roman World

    incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's richest and...
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  • A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution by Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
    Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

    A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution

    We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place....
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  • Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis by Tuma, Elias H.
    Elias H. Tuma

    Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis

    Have land reform movements ever managed to redistribute wealth, to encourage economic development, to improve standards of living, to ensure political stability? This book answers in the negative. Drawing upon land reform movements over twenty-six centuries of history, Tuma develops a hypothesis about land...
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  • Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis by Tuma, Elias H.
    Elias H. Tuma

    Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform: A Comparative Analysis

    Have land reform movements ever managed to redistribute wealth, to encourage economic development, to improve standards of living, to ensure political stability? This book answers in the negative. Drawing upon land reform movements over twenty-six centuries of history, Tuma develops a hypothesis about land...
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  • Assyria: The Imperial Mission by Liverani, Mario
    Mario Liverani

    Assyria: The Imperial Mission

    In ancient traditions, Assyria was the first world empire in a series that continued with Persia, Macedonia, and Rome. After Rome, we imagine the series bifurcating into a Western trajectory (from Charlemagne to Napoleon and the Third Reich) and an Oriental trajectory (from the...
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  • Writing the History of Slavery by Doddington, David Stefan
    David Stefan Doddington

    Writing the History of Slavery

    Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing Historyseries highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies...
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  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by Graeber, David
    David Graeber

    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote...
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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text...
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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a...
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  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest...
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  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Diamond, Jared
    Jared Diamond

    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of...
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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution--when humans fell into a trap we've yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.What if...
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  • Humankind: A Hopeful History by Bregman, Rutger
    Rutger Bregman

    Humankind: A Hopeful History

    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The "lively" (The New Yorker), "convincing" (Forbes), and "riveting pick-me-up we all need right now" (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...
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  • The Library: A Fragile History by Pettegree, Andrew
    Andrew Pettegree

    The Library: A Fragile History

    Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age. Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in...
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  • The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by McGilchrist, Iain
    Iain McGilchrist

    The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture--"one of the few contemporary works deserving classic status" (Nicholas Shakespeare, Times, UK) "Persuasively argues that our society is suffering from the consequences of...
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  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Frankopan, Peter
    Peter Frankopan

    The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. "A rare book that makes you...
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  • Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention by Wilson, Ben
    Ben Wilson

    Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention

    In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. "A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time--dazzling." --The Wall Street...
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  • The Year 1000: When Globalization Began by Hansen, Valerie
    Valerie Hansen

    The Year 1000: When Globalization Began

    *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a "vivid" and "astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected...
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  • Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution--when humans fell into a trap we've yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.What if...
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  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Herman, Arthur
    Arthur Herman

    How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

    An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made...
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  • Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Hanson, Victor Davis
    Victor Davis Hanson

    Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

    With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the...
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  • The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival by Begley, Chris
    Chris Begley

    The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival

    In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future. Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more,...
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  • The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Wilkinson, Toby
    Toby Wilkinson

    The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Magisterial . . . A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt's complex evolution over the course of three millenniums."--Los Angeles Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - Publishers Weekly In this landmark...
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  • The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition by Ibn Khaldûn, Ibn
    Ibn Khald甁

    The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition

    The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald甁 (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of...
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  • Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity by Kingsley, Peter
    Peter Kingsley

    Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity

    Catafalque offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as mystic, gnostic and prophet for our time. This book is the first major re-imagining of both Jung and his work since the publication of the Red Book in 2009 -- and...
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  • 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated by Cline, Eric H.
    Eric H. Cline

    1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

    A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into...
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  • About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by Rooney, David
    David Rooney

    About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

    For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment...
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  • Humankind: A Hopeful History by Bregman, Rutger
    Rutger Bregman

    Humankind: A Hopeful History

    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The "lively" (The New Yorker), "convincing" (Forbes), and "riveting pick-me-up we all need right now" (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term...
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  • Salt: A World History by Kurlansky, Mark
    Mark Kurlansky

    Salt: A World History

    "Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt." - New York Times Book Review An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World Best-selling author Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item...
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  • A Book of Life by Kingsley, Peter
    Peter Kingsley

    A Book of Life

    Peter Kingsley's Book of Life is the culmination and completion of an extraordinary body of work. As a historian he has revolutionized our understanding of ancient philosophy and religion; as a mystic, he introduced us to what philosophy and religion are meant to be.Hauntingly...
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  • Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Newitz, Annalee
    Annalee Newitz

    Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

    In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the...
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  • The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Favereau, Marie
    Marie Favereau

    The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

    2021 Cundill History Prize FinalistA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Spectator Best Book of the YearA Five Books Best Book of the Year "Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjects the Mongols to a much-needed re-evaluation, showing how they were able not only...
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  • National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind from Prehistory to Modern Times by Isbouts, Jean-Pierre
    Jean-Pierre Isbouts

    National Geographic Ultimate Visual History of the World: The Story of Humankind from Prehistory to Modern Times

    Author: Jean-Pierre IsboutsISBN-10: 1426221894ISBN-13: 9781426221897Publisher: National Geographic SocietyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2021Pages: 656Format: HardcoverWeight: 5.65lbsSize: 11.02h x 9.61w x 1.81d
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  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Harari, Yuval Noah
    Yuval Noah Harari

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which...
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  • Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots by Suzman, James
    James Suzman

    Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

    "This book is a tour de force." --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and...
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  • Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths by Browder, Anthony T.
    Anthony T. Browder

    Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization: Exploding the Myths

    Author: Anthony T. BrowderISBN-10: 092494403XISBN-13: 9780924944031Publisher: Institute of Karmic GuidanceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1992Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 10.20h x 7.40w x 0.70d
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  • On Grand Strategy by Gaddis, John Lewis
    John Lewis Gaddis

    On Grand Strategy

    "The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader."--The Wall Street Journal A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has...
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  • Names, Nations, and the New Testament: Investigating the origins of mankind from Genesis to Acts by Craig, Madelyn Rose
    Madelyn Rose Craig

    Names, Nations, and the New Testament: Investigating the origins of mankind from Genesis to Acts

    Names, Nations, and the New Testament will explain in brief how the nations of the world arose from the sons of Noah, how they spread across the face of the whole earth, and why that should matter to you. These chapters discuss the history...
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  • The Goddess and the Bull: Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Balter, Michael
    Michael Balter

    The Goddess and the Bull: ﾇatalh?: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization

    Veteran science writer Michael Balter skillfully weaves together many threads in this fascinating book about one of archaeology's most legendary sites- ﾇatalh?. First excavated forty years ago, the site is justly revered by prehistorians, art historians, and New Age goddess worshippers alike for its...
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  • Ancient Mesopotamia by Faust, Daniel R.
    Daniel R. Faust

    Ancient Mesopotamia

    Located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq, the region known as Mesopotamia, Greek for between two rivers, is often called the cradle of civilization. The region is known for the rise of the first cities, as well as the invention of...
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  • Sumerian Mythology: A Deep Guide into Sumerian History and Mesopotamian Empire and Myths by Brown, Joshua
    Joshua Brown

    Sumerian Mythology: A Deep Guide into Sumerian History and Mesopotamian Empire and Myths

    Do you want to discover the Sumerian history and mythology that have inspired men and women around the world for thousands of years? Sumerian history and mythology have been shrouded in mystery for thousands of years. These tales of the world's very first civilization...
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  • The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilisation by Hubbard, Arthur John
    Arthur John Hubbard

    The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilisation

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology by Blechman, Max
    Max Blechman

    Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology

    Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and transvalued for the benefit of the struggles of today and...
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  • The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Quigley, Carroll
    Carroll Quigley

    The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis

    Carroll Quigley was a legendary teacher at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. His course on the history of civilization was extraordinary in its scope and in its impact on students. Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look...
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  • After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Jacobs, Margaret D.
    Margaret D. Jacobs

    After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

    A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted...
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