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  • Ten Years a Cowboy (Illustrated)

    Series Book 42 - Western Cowboy Classics
    Ten Years a Cowboy is only the second known cowboy autobiography ever published. This is a story of the romance and adventures of a life on the plains with the varied experiences as cowboy, stock-owner, and rancher. C. C. Post lived through the Wild West's golden years, and writes with a clear sense of authority. Of particular interest, much of the novel revolves around Terre Haute, Indiana, today ... Read more

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  • Across the Andes

    "Across the Andes" by Charles Johnson Post is an adventurous tale that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the majestic Andes mountains. The story follows a group of explorers as they navigate the treacherous terrain, encountering breathtaking landscapes and diverse cultures along the way. Post's vivid descriptions and engaging narrative style immerse readers in the rich history and ... Read more

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  • The Little War Of Private Post: An Artist-Soldier's Memoir Of The Spanish-American War

    THE LITTLE WAR OF PRIVATE POST is a stirring, funny, brave, sympathetic piece of Americana—the memoir of a foot soldier in the Spanish-American War who happened also to be a first-rate artist, carrying a sketchbook along with his gun. It is a GI's view of the invasion of Cuba in June 1898, from the moment that Charles Johnson Post passed the jumping test, the coughing test and the eyesight test ... Read more

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  • Horse Packing

    A Manual of Pack Transportation

    Horse packing-using horses (and sometimes mules) as a form of conveyance for supplies and goods-was once a cornerstone of human transportation. Filled with precisely drawn illustrations and written instructions on the many types of required hitches, cordage, ropes, splices, and knots, this practical guide expertly covers all aspects of a formerly commonplace skill. It includes fine explanations of ... Read more

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  • Across the Andes

    A Tale of Wandering Days Among the Mountains of Bolivia and the Jungles of the Upper Amazon (IIlustrations)

    Example in this ebookCHAPTER IOLD PANAMA, AGAMEMNON, AND THE GENIAL PICAROONIt was in Panama—the old Panama—and in front of the faded and blistered hotel that I met him again. A bare-footed, soft-voiced mozo had announced that a person, a somebody, was awaiting me below. Down in the broken-tiled lobby a soured, saffron clerk pointed scornfully to the outside. Silhouetted against the hot shimmer ... Read more

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  • Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism

    Edited by Xavier Lafrance, Charles Post ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume builds and expands on the groundbreaking work of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood on the origins of capitalism. Whereas Brenner and Wood focused mostly on the emergence of capitalism in the English countryside (agrarian capitalism), this book utilizes their approach to offer original, theoretically sophisticated, and empirically informed accounts of transitions to ... Read more

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  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York TimesFINALIST: ... Read more

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  • The Chronicles of the Old West - 4 Historical Books Exploring the Wild Past of the American West (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Cowboys, Outlaws, and the Opening of the Wild West

    The Chronicles of the Old West gathers four of Emerson Hough's historical studies into a sweeping account of the American frontier: its trails, cattle ranges, outlaw legends, migrant caravans, and gradual absorption into national life. Written in a vigorous, documentary style that blends anecdote, reportage, and romantic retrospect, the volume belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of ... Read more

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  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Equality

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is ... Read more

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  • Maximum Canada

    Toward a Country of 100 Million

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    To face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. But why and how many?Canada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all. That wasn’t by accident. For centuries before Confederation and a century after, colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view isolated this country, attracting few of the people and building few of the institutions needed to sustain a sovereign ... Read more

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