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  • Shasta Lake

    Boomtowns and the Building of the Shasta Dam

    by Al Rocca ...
    Series series Images of America
    When national newspapers reported in 1938 that a large dam would be built in northern California, hundreds of job-seeking families streamed into Shasta County. Shasta Dam would be America's last large concrete dam and would take years to build, offering employment for those fortunate enough to secure a construction job during the Great Depression. Captured here in over 200 rare photographs is the ... Read more

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  • World War II in North State California

    by Al M. Rocca ...
    Series series Military
    On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 the world changed for the North State—and the nation. A national call to arms by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor spurred local residents to action, and the normal rhythm of life immediately and dramatically changed. By Christmas of that year, everyone understood their roles. Those who could enlist served in Army and Navy ... Read more

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  • Christopher Columbus and the Genesis of New World Colonialism, 1493–96

    An Historical Geography of his Second Voyage

    by Al M. Rocca ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Historical Geography
    This book explores the role of geography’s five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombus’s second voyage. It explores the impacting events that led to deteriorating relations between Columbus, the Spanish settlers (adventurers), and the indigenous Taíno and Carib people, creating a social paradigm of confusion, displacement, ... Read more

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  • Mapping Christopher Columbus

    An Historical Geography of His Early Life to 1492

    by Al M. Rocca ...
    The impact of Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic voyage launched an unprecedented explosion of European exploration. Throughout the last 500 years, scholars have recognized this transforming event, and they have written extensively on the subject. To date, no American author has dedicated a book to Columbus's life before 1492. This biography does so, with a focus on geographical ... Read more

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  • A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean

    by Al M. Rocca ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Historical Geography
    This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history. It provides a detailed day-by-day account of the explorer’s travels and activities, richly illustrated with thematic maps.This work expands our understanding of Columbus’s first voyage by mapping his sea and land experiences, offering both a historical and geographical ... Read more

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    The Four Voyages, 1492-1504

    From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer.Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to ... Read more

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  • A Land So Strange

    The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

    From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, the gripping tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century.**“Once you start this book, it's nearly impossible to put it down.” -**Washington PostIn 1527, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane and knocked off course by a colossal error of ... Read more

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  • Conquering The Pacific

    An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

    The true story of a colorful and momentous 16th-century voyage, and of the Black mariner whose accomplishment was almost lost to history.It was a voyage of epic scope. In a Spanish plot to break Portugal's trade monopoly with the fabled Orient, four ships set sail from a hidden Mexican port. The smallest of them was guided by Black seaman Lope Martín, one of the most qualified pilots of the era. ... Read more

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  • Wreckers

    Disaster in the Age of Discovery

    by Simon Park ...
    Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.'Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fairly spark off each other. It could be a model for how academics should write history for a general audience' The Times‘A flowing, gripping narrative, Wreckers is ... Read more

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  • Conquistadors

    by Michael Wood ...
    The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 16th century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history. Spanish expeditions endured incredible hardships in order to open up the lands of the 'New World', and few stories in history can match these for drama and endurance.In Conquistadors, Michael Wood follows in the footsteps of some of the greatest of the Spanish adventurers ... Read more

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  • Magellan

    Over the Edge of the World

    A "richly researched and highly readable" young-adult adaptation of Laurence Bergreen's bestseller about Magellan's historic voyage around the globe ( School Library Journal).On September 6, 1522, a horribly battered ship manned by eighteen malnourished, scurvy-ridden sailors appeared on the horizon near a Spanish port. They were survivors of the first European expedition to circle the globe. ... Read more

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  • The Age of Exploration

    From Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan

    Series series The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Adventurers
    The Age of Exploration, which spanned roughly from 1400 to 1550, was the first time in history that European powers—eyeing new trade routes to the East or seeking to establish empires—began actively looking far past their own borders to gain a better understanding of the world and its many resources. The individuals who set out on behalf of the countries they represented came from a variety of ... Read more

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