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Home & Farm Manual: Classic Edition
Rh Value Publishing Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Accessories: ASIN: 0517445301 Release Date: 1984-06-20 |
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Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Robert M. Utley Manufacturer: Bison Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0803295510 |
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In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War. Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman-from the first skirmishes with the Sioux over the Bozeman Trail defenses in 1866 to the final defeat and subjugation of the Northern Plains Indians in 1890. Utley's brilliant descriptions of military maneuvers and flaming battles are juxtaposed with a careful analysis of Sherman's army: its mode of operation, equipment, and recruitment; its lifestyle and relations with Congress and civilians. Proud of the United States Army and often sympathetic toward the Indians, Utley presents a balanced overview of the long struggle. He concludes that the frontier army was not "the heroic vanguard of civilization" as sometimes claimed and still less "the barbaric band of butchers depicted in the humanitarian literature of the nineteenth century and the atonement literature of the twentieth." Rather, it was a group of ordinary (and sometimes extraordinary) men doing the best they could. Other Bison Books by Robert Utley are Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent life, Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend, and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.Customer Reviews:
Soldiers out doing a job.......2006-01-22
Objective, Unsympathetic, and Brilliantly Delivered.......2005-01-25
A look at the real Frontier.......2005-01-12
An indispensable look at the frontier army.......2004-02-06
The main value of this book lies in the fact that it provides an outstanding overview of military operations as a whole (as opposed to books that treat just one battle or campaign). The work fills in many holes that will undoubtedly exist for anyone who has studied a part of the Indian Wars, and who would like to have a more general overview available to them. Anyone who has studied the Little Bighorn, for example, will find in this book a wealth of information that will explain in great detail many of the factors that led up to that action and also many of its ramifications. This book is essential to any study of Western history, especially military history.
The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891.......2003-10-28
The Frontier Regulars saw themselves as the advance guard of cililization, sweeping aside the savage to make way for the stockman, the miner, the farmer and the merchant.
This is a well-researched, and very well written volume, complete with footnotes, bibliography, and index.
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Trail to Wounded Knee: The Last Stand of the Plains Indians 1860-1890 (National Geographic)
Herman Viola Manufacturer: National Geographic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 079228223X Release Date: 2004-10-01 |
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In eight chapters that begin in 1860 and end in 1890, accompanied by illustrations, photographs-some published for the first time-and maps, find the story of the demise of the Plains Indians: proud, strong, and resourceful, the very image of the American West. Chapter by chapter see how their ancient culture was decimated in a single generation, through three decades of bitter warfare. Between the end of the Civil War and the white man's final conquest of the frontier, U.S. Army soldiers and Indians collided again and again, in the Sand Creek Massacre, the Battle of Washita, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and in other fierce chases, retreats, and clashes, culminating in the devastating massacre of Big Foot's village at Wounded Knee in December 1890. This eloquent story is written by Herman Viola, a scholar and advocate of the American Indian who has been entrusted with the story by Native American scholars.
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The American Indian Wars 1860-1890 (Men at Arms Series, 63)
Philip Katcher Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0850450497 Release Date: 1992-03-26 |
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The wars between whites and Indians, the most famous of which were fought on the great Western plains between 1860 and 1890, were among the most tragic of all conflicts ever fought. To the victor went no less than the complete domination of the continent, to the loser total extinction. Accustomed only to small scale skirmishing and raiding, the Indians were doomed from the start. They had never fought a European-style war with its constant pressure and co-ordinated strategies. Philip Katcher details the armies of both sides, paying particular attention to their organisation and uniforms.
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Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology
Manufacturer: Duke University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0822316331 |
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Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective as it explores the dynamic between Andean cultural, social, and economic practices and the market forces of a colonial and postcolonial mercantile economy.
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Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides
John Wargo Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0300074468 |
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A leading expert in pesticide policy traces the history of pesticide law and science and arrives at the alarming conclusion that we have failed to protect ourselves, and especially our children, from pesticide contamination of food, soil, water, and air. Our faith in government`s ability to ensure only safe levels of exposure to pesticides is unfounded, says John Wargo, and he suggests fundamental legal and scientific reforms to contain the special health risks faced by children.Customer Reviews:
more law than science.......2006-05-10
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Our Children's Toxic Legacy How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides
John Wargo Manufacturer: Yale U.P. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000W3NSV8 |
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Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides. (book reviews): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology
Gilbert S. Omenn Manufacturer: National Academy of Sciences ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00097TOEW Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Issues in Science and Technology, published by National Academy of Sciences on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 1612 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides.: An article from: American Scientist
Manufacturer: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00097KPAY Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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Our Children's Toxic Legacy - How Science and Law Fail to Protect us from Pesticides (Paper)
J Wargo Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OS2A8I |
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OUR CHILDREN'S TOXIC LEGACY. How Science And Law Fail To Protect Us From Pesticides.
John. Wargo Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OSAPBM |
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Two in the Far North
Margaret E. Murie Manufacturer: Alaska Northwest Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 088240489X |
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A story of love and adventure in Alaska, and a moving testimonial to a beloved wild place. Murie received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her environmental work.Customer Reviews:
Two in the Far North.......2007-01-16
Alaska by an Alaskan.......2004-07-16
Margaret Murie (known as "Mardy"), gives as Alaska from a true insider's perspective, as one who grew up with it, knows it in her bones, and loves it the way we love our closest family.
Born in 1902, Mardy moved to Fairbanks at age 9, where kids went to school in -50F temperatures and where the only way in or out of Alaska in winter was on the back of a mail sled propelled by sled dogs. One of the first grads of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, she married the naturalist Olaus Murie and honeymooned in the Arctic. Over the years, fearless Mardy even took her infant children on expeditions into the wild.
The book is an indivisible combination of autobiography and nature writing. Murie has a remarkable eye; her descriptive powers rival McPhee's but her tone is more one of powerful affection rather than awe. My favorite story was of a young teenage Mardy, on her way to the Lower 48 to go to high school, catching the last mail sled out of town in the spring of 1918. This spring trip took many days; at each river crossing there was a possibility of not making it over the thinning ice.
What an adventure! Combined with that adventure is a powerful romance, the lifelong relationship between Olaus, a professional naturalist; Mardy, the fearless and intrepid companion; and Alaska herself.
Mardy Murie died only last year, at age 101. If you read this book, you will regret having just missed her; she deserves to be missed.
"My sense of wilderness is personal" - Margaret E. Murie.......2003-05-10
"And I see them dancing.....".......2000-11-14
This book is a must have. Mrs. Murie paints with words, a picture so vivid of Alaska's tundras and plains, that I felt as if I were part of it. The lifestyle was hard, but satisfying, and this woman's life was nothing short of fascinating. Mardy Murie is a living testament to the strength and beauty of women, and she leaves a shining example of what a woman can do. In her assistance in Olaus' work for the ANWR and other Alaskan Land Conservancies, to her carrying on of that work, she is a beacon to us all of what we can do.
Buy it...read it. You will fall in love with Alaska and with Mardy.
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Two in the Far North
Margaret E. Murie Manufacturer: Alaska Northwest Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000J4LF7Y |
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Mardy Murie Book Package
Manufacturer: Graphic Arts Center Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000E8DQO0 |
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The Mardy Murie Book Package contains both Arctic Dance (the Mardy Murie Story - 120pp - softcover) and Two in the Far North (Mardy's adventures, based on her journals - 370pp - softcover).
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Two In The Far North
Murie Manufacturer: Alfred A Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O9VF9W |
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Two in the Far North
Margaret E. Murie Manufacturer: Alaska Northwest Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000S8G1MA |
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Two in the Far North
Margaret E. Murie Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KU8JOY |
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Two in the Far North
Margaret E.; Murie, Olaus J. (illus) Murie Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000LDZGI2 |
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The Pale and the far north: Government and society in two early Tudor borderlands (The O'Donnell lecture)
Steven G Ellis Manufacturer: Published for the National University of Ireland by Officina Typographica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006ESJGW |
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Two in the Far North
Manufacturer: Ballantine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0345026225 |
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"The Alaska Frontier 1912-1959. "There is the drama of dangers on ice and rapids, cut off from the world by ice-filled seas_the roaring herds of caribou_the phantom like lynx darting between the trees. There is the warmth of human contact in a cold land. But more, there is the stunning granduer of Alaska_a land of subtle and delicate tracks."
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Two in the Far North
Margaret Murie Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NZZ53O |
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"Knight's Cross, Oak-Leaves and Swords Recipients 1941-45" (Elite)
Gordon Williamson Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1841766437 Release Date: 2005-09-10 |
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On 21 June 1941, as the Wehrmachtstormed forward across the frontiers of the Soviet Union, Hitler instituted a new higher grade of the Knight’s Cross decoration for gallantry and leadership: the silver clasp of the Oak-Leaves with Swords. It would be awarded to only 159 men of the approximately 15 million who served in the German armed forces during World War II. This third in a sequence of four titles describes and illustrates a selection of the recipients: from much-wounded front line infantry officers, to Hitler’s ‘brother-in-law’; from a sergeant pilot fighter ace, to the commanding general of the greatest tank force ever gathered on the Russian Front.
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Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power
Phyllis Bennis , and Danny Glover Manufacturer: Olive Branch Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 156656607X |
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When millions around the world marched to protest the Iraq war and the U.S. drive towards empire, the New York Times dubbed global public opinion "the second super-power." What empowered those protests was their alliance -- if only for a brief moment -- with governments unexpectedly willing to stand up to U.S. pressure, and with the United Nations itself, when it followed its Charter's command to stop "the scourge of war." Bennis tracks the rise of U.S. unilateralism and the doctrine of preemptive war, looking particularly at Iraq and Israel/Palestine, and examines both the potential and the challenges ahead in reclaiming the UN as part of the global peace movement.
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New Zealand Sea and Shore Birds
New Zealand Forest and Bird Protection Society Manufacturer: Forest and Bird Protection Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LH44KO |
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Sea and Shore Birds of New Zealand
O/P Manufacturer: David Bateman Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1869530136 |
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