The Epic of America 1351304100, 9781351304108

There is a tradition of one-volume narrative histories of the United States in which the political, military, diplomatic

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The Epic of America
1351304100, 9781351304108

A lively introduction to the rich and complex tradition of Latin literature from colonial Spanish America, and to its be

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pt. 1. Furs settle the New World -- "As fine a river as can be found" -- The precious beaver -- New Amsterdam

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Hey, America! is the story of how black music came from the margins of American life in the early twentieth century thro

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“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: th

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Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come

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The Epic Of The Bharatas (Mahabharata) (Summary) The Mahabharata or Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics

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Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk,

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The article refutes many of the arguments Stephen Henry Langdon made in his article on the text “The Sumerian Epic of Pa

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