A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox his
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Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centu