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America'S Battalion - Marines In The First Gulf War

by Otto Lehrack

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 America's Battalion tells the experiences of one unit, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, during Operation Desert Storm--the first Gulf War. Building from interviews with the members of the batallion, Otto Lehrack examines the nature of warfare in the Persian Gulf.
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Ancient Maya Traders Of Ambergris Caye

by Thomas H. Guderjan

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 Archaeologists are unsure exactly when the Maya inhabited the coastal areas of Belize, but evidence exists to support maritime trade network along the coast by AD 600. This text focuses on maritime trade network sites on Ambergris Caye, Belize where excavations have revealed remnants of very small villages, or camps, along the Caribbean coastline.
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The Argentine Folklore Movement - Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers And The Politics Of Cultural Nationalism, 1900-1955

by Oscar Chamosa

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Ferns Of Alabama

by Daniel Spaulding e John Short

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 A much-needed field guide to the more than 120 species of ferns and fern allies occurring naturally in the state, Ferns of Alabama provides yet another window into Alabama's amazing biodiversity. Ferns of Alabama is a beautiful, full-colour guidebook to the great variety of ferns and fern allies that populate Alabama woods, stream banks, prairies, glades, roadsides, and trails.
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Archaeological Salvage In The Walter F. George Basin Of The Chattahoochee River

by David Dejarnette

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 David L. DeJarnette, the founder of scientific archaeology in the state of Alabama, reports on archaeological surveys and excavations undertaken in the Chattahoochee River Valley between 1947 and 1962.
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Feasts - Archaeological And Ethnographic Perspectives On Food, Politics And Power

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 In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice.
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The Foreign Missionary Enterprise At Home - Explorations In North American Cultural History

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 This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.
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Montgomery In The Good War - Portrait Of A Southern City, 1939-1946

by Allen Cronenberg e Wesley Newton

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 Offers a richly textured account of a southern city and its people during World War II. Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montgomery, Alabama - a sleepy southern capital that was transformed irreversibly during World War II.
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Ad Hominem Arguments

by Douglas N. Walton

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 Presents a normative framework for identifying and evaluating ad hominem or personal attack arguments.
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The Very Worst Road - Travellers' Accounts Of Crossing Alabama'S Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847

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 Contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the 'Old Federal Road'. This title deals with the rather remarkable array of impediments that faced travelers in Alabama in its first decades as a state. It describes the road, the inns, the travelling companions, and the few and raw communities.
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The Packhorseman

by Charles Hudson

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 In April 1735, 20-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whiskey and a set of Shakespeare's plays, arrives in Charles Town, South Carolina, to make his fortune in the New World. The Scottish Highlands were in steep economic decline and hopelessly entangled in dangerous political intrigue.
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Gone To The Swamp - Raw Materials For The Good Life In The Mobile-Tensaw Delta

by Robert Leslie Smith

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 In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and softwood resources. This book offers an account of a man who was artful in all the skills needed to survive and raise a family in this area where most people would be lost or helpless.
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The Confederate Negro - Virginia'S Craftsmen And Military Laborers, 1861-1865

by James Brewer

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 A superb work in the social history of American industry.
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Song Of The Tides - A Novel

by Tom Joseph

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 Beginning with their battle against the forces of Ponce de Leon, the Calusa Indians of southwest Florida entered a dark period of European invasion and native resistance, which changed the nature and course of life on the North American continent. This work is set during Spanish entrada into southwest Florida and their encounters with the Calusa.
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Travel On Southern Antebellum Railroads, 1828-1860

by Eugene Alvarez

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 A volume on railroading in the pre-Civil War South. It encompasses a number of social, political, and even ideological subjects.
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All Out Of Faith - Southern Women On Spirituality

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 Gives voice to southern women writers who represent a spectrum of faiths, Catholic to Baptist, Jewish to Buddhist, and points in between. This title includes essays and stories that depict women who have experienced spiritual struggles, awakenings, transformations, and rebellions.
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Jubal Early'S Raid On Washington 1864

by B.F. Cooling

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Roger Brown - Southern Exposure

by Sidney Lawrence

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 The work of Roger Brown (1941-1997) is a nationally celebrated artist, innovator of the Chicago "Imagist" movement, and an Alabama native. This volume highlights a very intimate side of Brown's oeuvre: his connection to family and his southern roots. It is a testament to the talent of an Alabama boy who grew to have his impact on the world.
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Double Vision - A Novel

by George Garrett

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 A writer named George Garrett, suffering from double vision as the result of an illness, is asked to review a biography of the late Peter Taylor, a renowned writer and his longtime friend. Reflecting on their relationship, Garrett conceives of a character a writer in his early 70s, ill and suffering from double vision, named Frank Toomer.
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Remote Sensing In Archaeology - An Explicitly North American Perspective

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 NASA is composed of a vast and varied network of scientists across the academic spectrum involved in research and development programs that have wide application on planet Earth. This book, using case studies, reveals how the broad application of remote sensing and geophysical techniques is altering the usual conduct of dirt archaeology.
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Feminist Interventions In Early American Studies

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 Showcases fresh feminist perspectives on the literature of the period, addressing the diverse experiences of European, African, Latin, and Native Americans. This work contains essays that synthesize feminist perspectives from a number of approaches, including cultural studies, gender studies, and race theory.
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Perilous Missions - Civil Air Transport And Cia Covert Operations In Asia

by William Leary

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 <p>"Perilous Missions" is William M. Leary's detailed operational history of the USA's Civil Air Transport (CAT), taking it through its many forms and uses in Asian conflicts.
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Writing From The Edge Of The World - The Memoirs Of Darien, 1514-1527

by Gonzalo Fernandez De Oviedo

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 Contains the section of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's work that recounts his experience in the New World during his service in Panama. This work includes an introduction to Oviedo and provides general information on the political background of Spain and on the Spanish colonial system, the printing history of the text, and more.
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The Cultural Prison - Discourse, Prisoners, And Punishment

by John M. Sloop

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 <p>"The Cultural Prison" brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.
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