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This volume contains a selection of papers which have been revised and extended for publication from two working groups
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extrao
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Ninety-four years ago Wednesday, a Norwegian boat captain named Gerhard Folgero steered a small sailing vessel under the
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The essays in this book highlight how shapeshifting cannot be studied in isolation, but intersects with many other topic
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This book, by experts in Anglo-American-Canadian relations, examines North Atlantic triangle diplomacy from the Alaska b
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Although differing in their approaches, the contributors to this collection all agree that class remains indispensable t
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The entry of Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation has been the subject of many books. But, until now, the history of
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Envisioning an English Empire examines the founding of Jamestown in 1607 within its global, political, and cultural cont
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Sir Edmund Hillary described Douglas Mawson’s epic and punishing journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland
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This book explores the broad trajectory of the Holocene epoch in a region defined as the North Atlantic Polar Triang
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