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The course of empire  Cover Image Book Book

The course of empire

Summary: Tracing North American exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, DeVoto tells in classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation.

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  • ISBN: 0395924987
  • ISBN: 9780395924983
  • Physical Description: print
    xxxv, 647 pages : maps ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: ©1952.
"A Mariner book."
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-635) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Children of the sun -- Spectrum of knowledge -- Iron men -- Heartland -- Converging frontiers -- World turned upside down -- Twelve-year armistice -- Prime Meridian -- Equinoctial tide -- More perfect union -- Westward the course of empire -- Passage to India.
Subject: United States Territorial expansion
United States Discovery and exploration
Discoveries in geography
Territorial expansion
United States
Genre: Nonfiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library E 179.5 .D48 1998 679330 Stacks Available -

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