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Product Description: In 1831 a delegation of Northwest Indians reportedly made the arduous journey from the shores of the Pacific to the banks of the Missouri in order to visit the famous explorer William Clark. This delegation came, however, not on civic matters but on a religious quest, hoping, or so the reports ran, to discover the truth about the white men's religion...read more

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9780295985237 | Univ of Washington Pr, July 30, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In 1831 a delegation of Northwest Indians reportedly made the arduous journey from the shores of the Pacific to the banks of the Missouri in order to visit the famous explorer William Clark.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wove science and raw adventure together in their journals as they blazed a trail from St. Louis to the Pacific. Now, with fresh information drawn from many fields, Albert Furtwangler mines those journals for valuable insights into western American history as well as the process of discovery. Acts of Discovery argues that Lewis and Clark surpassed the enlightened instructions given to them by President Thomas Jefferson. They made a literal, large-scale experiment, probing the interior of a continent and weighing information that eventually would supersede the science, the politics, and even the artistic ideals of Jefferson and his age. Drawing on a background of interdisciplinary learning, Furtwangler illuminates the achievements of Lewis and Clark as naturalists, navigators, and diplomats who faced ever-new surprises as they worked their way west. He shows that their journals trace two very different patterns at the same time - as records of modern scientific reasoning and as a narrative of epic deeds in an American epic setting. Furtwangler also attempts to define Lewis and Clark's place in American history. He examines some ironic outcomes of westward expansion and conquest and brings out the peculiar courage of explorers who were the first (and almost the last) to cross the continent by pulling their way up the Missouri. He also compares Lewis and Clark's discoveries to those of other generations (from George Washington's early years as a surveyor of the new American interior, to the Apollo moon landings), discussing them in light of questions about progress posed by Francis Bacon, Henry Adams, and modern experimental scientists. (view table of contents)

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9780252020025 | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wove science and raw adventure together in their journals as they blazed a trail from St.

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9780252063060 | Univ of Illinois Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained. Understood as a symbolic encounter between indigenous America, represented by Chief Seattle, and industrialized or imperialist America, represented by Isaac I...read more

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9780295976389 | Univ of Washington Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained.

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9780295976334 | Univ of Washington Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Presents the full text of Chief Seattle's 1887 speech delivered to Washington Territory governor Isaac Stevens, and examines its origins, historical context, and twentieth-century versions and interpretations.

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Product Description: Franklin, John Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Marshall-all are familiar yet curiously distant American heroes, blurred by the similarities of their background and culture. In this engrossing book Albert Furtwangler looks at these men in turn, examining either a document or a telling incident in their lives in order to explore what was distinctive and unique about each of them...read more

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9780300037982 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1987, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Franklin, John Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Marshall-all are familiar yet curiously distant American heroes, blurred by the similarities of their background and culture.

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9780300045017 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 1989), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Franklin, John Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Marshall-all are familiar yet curiously distant American heroes, blurred by the similarities of their background and culture.

The Constitution of the United States was debated and explained in the Federalist Papers.

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9780801416439 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Constitution of the United States was debated and explained in the Federalist Papers.

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9780801493393 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, August 1, 1985), cover price $17.50

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