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West of the Revolution : an uncommon history of 1776
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Title
West of the Revolution : an uncommon history of 1776 / Claudio Saunt.
ISBN
9780393240207 (hbk.)
0393240207 (hbk.)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Physical Description
283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary
Details the other revolutions during 1776, including the reaction of the native residents of San Francisco in the wake of the first European settlement there and the devastation of the Aleutian Islands by the Russians' hunt for sea otters.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-259) and index.
Contents
Part I: The Russians are coming. Soft gold : Aleuts and Russians in Alaska ; A war for independence : the San Diego uprising ; First contact : colonizing San Francisco ; Across the Colorado Plateau
Part II: The continental divide. A forest transformed : the Hudson's Bay Company and Cumberland House ; The discovery : the Black Hills and the Lakota nation ; An invasion of malefactors : Osage Country ; Surrounded : the Deep South interior.
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