North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements: The Norse Voyages to 1612
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (620 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061320617 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 621 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Quinn. Book by David B
Great Starting Point for American History Buffs This is a fantastic book. I'd gotten about 100 pages into reading The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto, but was very turned off the by the style of writing in that book, although there was some overlap between that and this book. The I found The New American Nation Series and read David M. Potter's book The Impending Crisis and loved it. I decided to try other books in the series out, this is my second read and is just as fulfilling as . "not like the fourth grade history" according to Richard I. Pervo. if Q. sometimes seems unexciting, that is because exploration was mostly unexciting. with great care and diligence he seeks to set out what was learned and disseminated and when. From this one learns how difficult it was to establish European colonies in N. America. Q. well illustrates the variety of tribal cultures and the varied relations with them conducted by Europeans. This is a fine survey of the labor to construct a map of North Am