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In this generously illustrated book, Jerry Brotton documents the dramatic changes in the nature of geographical representation which took place during the sixte
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Pages: 300
Authors: Robert Silbernagel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-13 - Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

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The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the history of trade a
Systems of Survival
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Jane Jacobs
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-17 - Publisher: Vintage

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With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life. I
Ships on Maps
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Authors: Richard W. Unger
Categories: History
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Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were expl
Selling Themselves
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Russell Johnston
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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From its origins in the Victorian era as a marginal and somewhat shady enterprise, the advertising trade in Canada changed radically after the turn of the centu