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Jared Orsi
It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated.
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Jared Orsi
Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history—the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth c
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Jared Orsi
In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thrivin
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Jared Orsi
Publikováno v:
The AAG Review of Books. 7:6-7
Terence Young. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. xi and 367 pp., maps, diagrams, illustrations, notes, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978080145402).Occasionally, a book comes along on a topic ...
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Jared Orsi
Publikováno v:
History Compass. 12:433-443
Borderlands history is a burgeoning field that churns out dozens of important monographs every year. Despite their individual insights, these works collectively lack conceptual glue to hold them together as a field. Using US-Mexican border historiogr
“The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,” the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings togeth
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Jared Orsi
Publikováno v:
The Western Historical Quarterly. 42:55-75
Growing up after the American Revolution, Zebulon Pike absorbed Atlantic-world ideas about bodies, sacrifice, self-betterment, and nationalism. He tested and modified them through physical hardship on the frontier and used the ordeals to claim higher
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Jared Orsi
Publikováno v:
Environmental History. 18:814-816
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Jared Orsi
Publikováno v:
Environmental History. 20:559-560