Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 0190053674, 9780190053673

Carleton Watkins: Making the West American 9780520963023

 "[a] fascinating and indispensable book."—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Carleton Watkins (1829–1916

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The Making of the Great West 9781582184395

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Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline 0819580317, 9780819580313

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American l

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The Promise of the West : Young Pioneers on the Overland Trails [1 ed.] 9781493017270, 9781493017263

Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid

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Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 9781479802166

Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation Picking up where most historians conclude, Ch

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Trails of the Pathfinders

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The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet 9780520950498

This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative rel

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Fearless: The Making Of Post-Rock

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Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity 9781478012092

The contributors to Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identif

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Ghost Towns of the American West 0618065571

If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets

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