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Nature & history in the Potomac country : from hunter-gatherers to the age of Jefferson /

"James D. Rice's study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three-quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rice, James D., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface. The hole in the map -- Introduction. Ahone's gift -- 1. Ahone's waters -- 2. Foragers into farmers -- 3. "Kings" of the Potomac -- 4. The nature of colonization -- 5. Peltries and "Papists" -- 6. "You come too near" -- 7. Microbes, magistrates, and migrations -- 8. "Away with all these distractions" -- 9. "Frightened away by some threatening discourses" -- 10. "I can not live in this beautiful land" -- 11. The trouble with boundaries -- 12. The backcountry transformed -- 13. "The finest country I ever was in" -- Coda. Ahone's legacy. 
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