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The San Antonio Missions and Their System of Land Tenure

By: Almaraz, Felix D.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Austin, University of Texas Press: 1989

Seller ID: 604286

ISBN: 0292746539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Prior owner's name on free front endpage. 100 pages. Genealogists and people with roots in the San Antonio missions area may find useful clues to family history in this extensive study of land ownership along the banks of the Rio San Antonio.
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Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

By: Atkinson, Rick

Price: $6.32

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1994

Seller ID: 602937

ISBN: 0395710839

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

One quotation is highlighted. Very minor corner curl. . Black and white illus., bibliog., maps, index.. 1.15 x 9.23 x 6.08 Inches. 608 pages. This definitive account of the Gulf War relates the previously untold story of the U.S. war with Iraq in the early 1990s. The author follows the 42-day war from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs, White House strategy sessions, firefights, and bitter internal conflicts.
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The Story of the Mary Rose

By: Bradford, Ernle; Dusgate Selby

Price: $6.32

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1982

Seller ID: 602798

ISBN: 0241107687

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Color & B/w illus., index. . 207 pages
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Te Rauparaha: A New Perspective

By: Burns, Patricia

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Wellington, A. H. and A. W. Reed Ltd: 1980

Seller ID: 603849

ISBN: 0589013092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Maps on endpapers. Black and white photos. Bibliog., index . 346 pages
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Lilac Moon: Dreaming of the Real West

By: Butala, Sharon

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Toronto, CAN, HarperCollins Publishers: 2005

Seller ID: 605604

ISBN: 0002007789

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Full number line.. 256 pages. WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a Westerner? What is the Western experience and, by extension, what makes up the Western soul? In Lilac Moon, Sharon Butala inspires, delights and challenges us to think about the West in fresh ways. Beginning with a day in the life of the real West, she transports us to her Saskatchewan ranch, where a soft lilac moon lights the vast rolling landscape. Then, in a series of wide-ranging chapters that ponder the question "What makes a Westerner?" she considers the myths, the history, the peoples of the three prairie provinces.From the...
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History of the Brick Church Pike Mound (40DV39)

By: Dowd, John T

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Nashville, Mini-Histories: 1985

Seller ID: 602788

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: As New

22 pages. From the Tennessee Archaeologist Vol XXX, No 2 1974.
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Anglo-Saxon Thegn: 449-1066 AD

By: Harrison, Mark

Price: $18.95

Publisher: London, Osprey Military Books: 1993

Seller ID: 608570

ISBN: 1855323494

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Color Illustrations. 64 pages. Warrior Series, No. 5. The collapse of Roman rule in Britain was not so much a sudden catastrophe as a long and drawn-out decline. The 'Celtic' Britons retreated gradually to the highland areas of Wales, Cornwall and the south-west of Scotland. Control of the fertile eastern lowlands was lost to warriors of Germanic origin who migrated from the Continent. These Germanic conquerors have become known to history as the 'Anglo-Saxons'. They were to dominate the lowland zone of Britain until their final defeat at Hastings in 1066. This title gives an insight into the ...
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of North America

By: Homberger, Eric

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1995

Seller ID: 605914

ISBN: 0140513272

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

144 pages. Hist Atlas. This atlas examines the history of North America's three principle nations, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, from their colonial origins to the formations of the North American Free Trade Association. The survey follows the rise of the U.S. to superpower status and assesses the relation of the three nations as a whole to the rest of the world. Full color.
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Elizabeth I: Virgin Queen?

By: Jones, Philippa

Price: $11.50

Publisher: London, New Holland Publishers Ltd: 2010

Seller ID: 607754

ISBN: 1847735150

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: As New

Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; Genealogical table . 328 pages
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Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany

By: Kilzer, Louis C.

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1994

Seller ID: 605175

ISBN: 0671767224

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

320 pages. A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist exposes one of World War II's darkest secrets: that Churchill tricked Hitler into invading Russia by setting up a phony peace between Germany and Britain.
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Carroll College: The First Century, 1846-1946

By: Langill, Ellen

Price: $20.95

Publisher: Waukesha, WI, Carroll College Pr: 1980

Seller ID: 600303

ISBN: 0916120066

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Tiny closed tear at back corner of d j . B/w photos, index. . 223 pages
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The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850

By: Langley, Lester D.

Price: $21.00

Publisher: New Haven, CT, Yale University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 608827

ISBN: 0300066139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 374 pages. In this masterly work, Lester D. Langley compares the political and social histories of three revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish -- American struggle for independence. Langley explores the characteristics that distinguished each upheaval, and he shows how the legacies of the revolutionary age affect virtually every modern political issue.
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The Fourth Part of the World

By: Lester, Toby

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Free Press: 2009

Seller ID: 608536

ISBN: 1416535314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Tiny amount of edgewear to corners and spine of dust jacket; sticker removal damage near ISBN . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pictoral cover. Deckle-edged pages; Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 462 pages. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a land of ...
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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World

By: Man, John

Price: $7.37

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 2000.

Seller ID: 608088

ISBN: 047141574X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 312 pages
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Roadside History of Texas

By: Metz, Leon Claire

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Missoula, MT, Mountain Press Publishing Company: 1994

Seller ID: 603969

ISBN: 0878422943

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

464 pages. Roadside History Series. This book guides visitors and residents along the state's highways and through its past to reveal the key figures and events that have made Texas what it is today.
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Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?

By: Peters, Ralph

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books: 2002

Seller ID: 602791

ISBN: 0811728056

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Full number line.. 0.65 x 8.32 x 5.54 Inches. 210 pages. Highly acclaimed military strategist and writer Ralph Peters challenges America's defense establishment and national leadership with startling insights and no-holds-barred criticism. His radical assessment of the future of conflict and the kinds of enemies we will face has already excited international controversy and influenced policy. Peters identifies a "new warrior class" and a new culture of conflict that could undo America on the battlefields of the future, as seen in the events of September 11, 2001. He broadly reinter...
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Running in Place: How Bill Clinton Disappointed America

By: Reeves, Richard

Price: $32.95

Publisher: Kansas City , MO, Andrews McMeel Pub: 1996

Seller ID: 608806

ISBN: 0836210913

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

0.5 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches. 107 pages. The veteran journalist and columnist examines the circumstances and consequences of what he sees as serious missteps and misperceptions on the part of President Clinton and his administration.
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Savannah: A History of Her People Since 1733

By: Russell, Preston; Hines, Barbara

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Savannah, GA, Frederic C. Beil Publisher: 1992

Seller ID: 604569

ISBN: 091372081X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Hint of wear to corners . 204 pages. Since 1992 this book has been the benchmark history of Savannah, Georgia. Includes more than 150 illustrations, bibliography, and index.
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Americans from Germany

By: Wilk, Gerard

Price: $3.50

Publisher: 1995

Seller ID: GER096

ISBN: 1880788063

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

83 pages
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and A Vast Ocean of A Million Stories

By: Winchester, Simon

Price: $17.99

Publisher: New York, Harpercollins: 2010

Seller ID: 608999

ISBN: 0061702587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover.I Gray boards with dark blue spine imprinted in gold with title and author. llustrated endpapers Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 495 pages. Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of ci...
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Category: History