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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Oxford University Press pbk.
Physical Desc
xi, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, pilgrims, or Native Americans -- not cattle, goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account, livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west. Colonists believed that livestock would provide the means to realize America's potential. It...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United States faces its own challengers to the order it has enforced since the 1940s? To answer these questions, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis or tension between Britain and the United States,...
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