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The Course of Empire
Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto
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Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.
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- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 647
- Language
- EN
- Categories
- Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers, History / Europe / Western, History / Military / General, History / Indigenous / General, History / North America, History / United States / General, History / United States / State & Local / General, History / World, History / Modern / 18th Century, History / Modern / 21st Century, History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History / Essays, History / Expeditions & Discoveries, Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- ISBN-13
- 9780395924983
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