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Colonial America To 1763

By: Thomas L. Purvis

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Colonial America To 1763

By: Thomas L. Purvis

Chronicles life in the United States during the Colonial period, including information on weather, economy, population, religion, education, arts and letters, and popular culture.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438107994

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9781438107998

The Lessons of the American Civilization

Its Confident Rise and the Warning Signs of Its Decline

By: Thomas Del Beccaro

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The Lessons of the American Civilization

Its Confident Rise and the Warning Signs of Its Decline

By: Thomas Del Beccaro

The Lessons of the American Civilization tells the American story, from its tenuous beginnings to its confident rise to become the world’s most dominant civilization. Historian Thomas Del Beccaro illuminates America’s past and present with fresh comparisons to history’s other great civilizations,illustrating the characteristics and lessons that civilizations share as they come together, rise, and fall. He then tells of the American experience, from Plymouth Rock to the technological revolution, in light of many important lessons of the past. Along the way, Del Beccaro provides needed perspective on such topics as: • Whether America is exceptional compared to other civilizations • Capitalism’s most important legacy of making democracy possible • The danger centralization of power in government presents • What America’s political and class division says about the trajectory of the civilization • What lies ahead for the country For the everyday reader and historian alike, this book is a thoughtful and thorough examination of where America has been and where it is going.

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320

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1632998580

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9781632998583

The 1997 Genealogy Annual

A Bibliography of Published Sources

By: Thomas Jay Kemp

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The 1997 Genealogy Annual

A Bibliography of Published Sources

By: Thomas Jay Kemp

The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main sections.p liFAMILY HISTORIES-/licites American and international single and multifamily genealogies, listed alphabetically by major surnames included in each book.p liGUIDES AND HANDBOOKS-/liincludes reference and how-to books for doing research on specific record groups or areas of the U.S. or the world.p liGENEALOGICAL SOURCES BY STATE-/liconsists of entries for genealogical data, organized alphabetically by state and then by city or county.p The Genealogy Annual, the core reference book of published local histories and genealogies, makes finding the latest information easy. Because the information is compiled annually, it is always up to date. No other book offers as many citations as The Genealogy Annual; all works are included. You can be assured that fees were not required to be listed.

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390

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842027416

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9780842027410

The Overseas Trade of British America

A Narrative History

By: Thomas M. Truxes

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The Overseas Trade of British America

A Narrative History

By: Thomas M. Truxes

A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy In a single, readily digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents the three hundred–year history of the overseas trade of British America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to Atlantic trade.

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465

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Yale University Press

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0300161301

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9780300161304

Vicarious Warfare

American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap

By: Thomas Waldman

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Vicarious Warfare

American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap

By: Thomas Waldman

America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the military’s exposure to danger is limited, and special forces and covert instruments are on the increase. Important strategic decisions are taken with minimal scrutiny or public engagement. This compelling account charts the historical emergence of this distinctive tradition of war and explains the factors driving its contemporary prominence. It contrasts the tactical advantages of vicarious warfare with its hidden costs and potential to cause significant strategic harm.

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Policy Press

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1529207037

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9781529207033

The Living Bread

By: Thomas Merton

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The Living Bread

By: Thomas Merton

The whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another? We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. There is a distinction between a contrite sense of sin and a feeling of guilt. The former is a true and healthy thing, the latter tends to be false and pathological. The man who suffers from a sense of guilt does not want to feel guilty, but at the same time he does not want to be innocent. He wants to do what he thinks he must not do, without the pain of worrying about the consequences. The history of our time has been made by dictators whose characters, often transparently easy to read, have been full of repressed guilt. They have managed to enlist the support of masses of men moved by the same repressed drives as themselves. Modern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. The technique of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are all too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person.

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1708

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429945281

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9781429945288

Letters of Thomas E. Thomas

By: Thomas E. Thomas

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Letters of Thomas E. Thomas

By: Thomas E. Thomas

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0526974427

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9780526974429

What Experience Has Taught Me

An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton

By: Thomas William Burton,Joe Henry Mitchell

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What Experience Has Taught Me

An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton

By: Thomas William Burton,Joe Henry Mitchell

What Experience Has Taught Me An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton: By way of introduction to the reading public of Dr. Thomas W. Burton, the author of this book, I desire to say that the effort that is made a success, though it may be opposed by difficulties, encourages many a hitherto despondent one. Encouragement is what humanity stands in need of, and especially those who have not been in the midst of the most favorable surroundings for mental and moral development. I am sure that anyone reading this volume will find much to inspire him to earnest and continued effort. We have here the history of a man who, like Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, has come up from obscurity and by dint of hard study and honesty, and above all by being a man of God, has come to honorable distinction.

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CreateSpace

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145059168X

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9781450591683

Memoirs of Theodore Thomas

By: Rose Fay Thomas

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Memoirs of Theodore Thomas

By: Rose Fay Thomas

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Wentworth Press

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0530874202

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9780530874203

MEMOIRS OF THEODORE THOMAS

By: Rose Fay 1852-1929 Thomas

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MEMOIRS OF THEODORE THOMAS

By: Rose Fay 1852-1929 Thomas

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1374407089

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Book's by Thomas L. Purvis

Colonial America To 1763

Colonial America To 1763

The Lessons of the American Civilization

The Lessons of the American Civilization

The 1997 Genealogy Annual

The 1997 Genealogy Annual

The Overseas Trade of British America

The Overseas Trade of British America

Vicarious Warfare

Vicarious Warfare

The Living Bread

The Living Bread

Letters of Thomas E. Thomas

Letters of Thomas E. Thomas

What Experience Has Taught Me

What Experience Has Taught Me

Memoirs of Theodore Thomas

Memoirs of Theodore Thomas

MEMOIRS OF THEODORE THOMAS

MEMOIRS OF THEODORE THOMAS

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