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Peoples and Cultures Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Bonnie G. Smith. United States Presidential Administrations Term(s) President Political Party 1789–1797 George Washington No party designation 1797–1801 John Adams ...
From Pierre Clément, ed., Lettres Instructions et Mémoires de Colbert. vol. 3, pt. 2, Instructions au Marquis de Seignlay: Colonies (Paris, 1865), trans. David Kammerling Smith in The West in the Wider World, vol. 2, by Richard Lim and ...
Luther denounced the sale of indulgences as a corrupt practice. Printed, the theses became public and unleashed a torrent of pent-up resentment and frustration among the laypeople. What began as a theological debate in a provincial ...
As Anne F. Hyde shows, they navigated the hard choices they faced as they had for centuries: by relying on the rich resources of family and kin. Here is an indelible western history with a new human face.
Peoples and Cultures Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Bonnie G. Smith ... no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, ...
Jordan, David Starr. The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races through the Survival of the Unfit. Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1910. Jordan, David Starr. The Days of Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, ...
Captivity and Enslavement The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (c. ... Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789) From Paul Edwards, ed., Equiano's Travels: His Autobiography, ...
Konow, S., 320 n. Koprulu, Mohammed, 612 Korais, ... Laufer, B., 320 n., 323 n. La Vallée Poussin, L., ... Levant, 97, 144, 190, 192, 251, 277, 441,445, 451, 490 m., 491, 508, 509, 518, 546, 616, 653 Levi, S., 348 n. Levy, G. R., 8 n., ...