LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ursula carlson

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  • Medieval Monks and Monasteries
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    The Middle Ages in Western Europe extended from roughly 500 to 1500 c.e. During these thousand years, hundreds of monastic communities were founded and played important roles in religious, economic, social, literary and even military realms. Each had different emphases and goals, ranging from aristocratic monasteries and nunneries that offered comfort and security, to rural ...
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    57,48 €

  • Overland Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West. Over three centuries later, the four 'Great Surveys' in the United States were consolidated into the U.S. Geological Survey. The frontiers were the lands near or beyond the recognized i...
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    64,98 €

  • Historic Nevada Waters
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that includes most of Nevada and parts of five other Western states. The histories of four of the Western rivers of the Great Basin--the Walker, the Truckee, the Carson and the Humboldt--are explored in this book, along with three of the western lakes of the Great Basin: Lake Tahoe, Pyramid Lake, and Walker Lake. Drawing on a range of...
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    79,49 €

  • The Californios
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    Before the Gold Rush of 1848-1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier--and home to a colorful group of Spanish-speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indians, they carved out an almost feudal way of life, raising cattle along the California coast and valleys. Visitors described them...
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    42,92 €

  • The California Campaigns of the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was folly. Mexico surrendered to the United States more than half a million square miles of territory, contributing to a legacy of distrust and bitterness towards the U.S. that has never entirely dissipated. The real prize was California. The Californios--Spanish speaking, non-native i...
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    42,88 €

  • Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercena...
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    42,89 €

  • Trails of Historic New Mexico
    Hunt Janin / Ursula Carlson
    This is a survey of the major historic trails of New Mexico and other parts of the American Southwest. These trails were used by Indians, prospectors, soldiers, buffalo hunters, immigrants, and cattle and sheep drovers, and, unlike other, more famous Western trails, were used as a network of two-way trade routes instead of one-way avenues for westward migration. Introductory...
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    57,44 €