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The Untilled Garden
Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740–1840
This study follows a generation of American naturalists across the Appalachian Mountains and into the middle-western frontier and lays before the reader their impressions of a vast natural world soon to become a domesticated landscape of fields, meadows, and pastures.
- $30.99 (Z)
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution
Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization that created deep and persistent tensions within the empire during the colonial era and that the failure to resolve it was the principal element in the decision of thirteen continental colonies to secede from the empire in 1776.
- $22.99 (Z)
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