Devil`s advocate, West, Morris

Автор: Morris Ian
Название: Why the West Rules - for Now
ISBN: 1846682088 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846682087
Издательство: Profile
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Описание: Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science.

Автор: Gelber Lionel Morris
Название: America in Britain`s Place: The Leadership of the West and Anglo-American Unity
ISBN: 1258648733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258648732
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Автор: Morris Larry E.
Название: The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail
ISBN: 144221113X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442211131
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark s safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn Ramsey Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion. These seven counted the Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass among their discoveries. More importantly, they forged the Oregon Trail a path destined to link the Atlantic coast with the Pacific, spurring national expansion as it carried trappers, soldiers, pioneers, missionaries, and gold-seekers westward. The Perilous West begins in 1806, when Crooks and McClellan meet Lewis and Clark, and the vast expanse from the Dakotas to the Pacific coast appears a commercial paradise. The story ends in 1814, when a band of French Canadian trappers rescue Marie Dorion, and even John Jacob Astor s well-financed enterprise has ended in violence and chaos, placing the protagonists squarely in the context of Thomas Jefferson s monumental opening of the West, which stalled with the War of 1812.