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1	The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 more books like this by Gershom Gorenberg add to wishlist In "The Accidental Empire", Gershom Gorenberg examines the strange birth of the settler movement in the ten years following the Six-Day War and finds that it was as much the child of Labour Party socialism as of religious extremism. The giants of Israeli history - Dayan, Meir, Eshkol, Allon - all played major roles in this drama, as did more ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.21! \| first editions \| SVS
2	El Cid and the Reconquista 1050-1492 more books like this by Dr. David Nicolle, Angus McBride (Illustrator) add to wishlist The very name El Cid sums up much of the special character of medieval Spanish warfare. It comes from the Arabic al sayyid, master or chieftain, and seems to have been given to Rodrigo de Vivar by his Muslim foes. But was it given in recognition of El Cid's victories against Islam in the 'Reconquista' - or because this Castilian nobleman was as ... see all copies from $7.82! new only from $7.82! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands more books like this by Neil Rolde, Rosemary Mosher (Illustrator), Kristen Read Boettcher (Illustrator) add to wishlist Here is the context for understanding (and enjoying) those headlines about "kingdom" buyers, clearcutting referenda, paper mill buyouts, camp leases, land claims settlements, a new national park, and more. This readable history of land ownership in Maine makes history--and the headlines--come alive! see all copies from $7.97! new only from $11.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Peter Loon more books like this by Van Reid add to wishlist Set at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, this delightful tale is penned by the author of the Moosepath League chronicles. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska more books like this by Stuart Banner add to wishlist During the 19th century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $35.00! \| SVS
6	An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture more books like this by Edward Watts add to wishlist The Old Northwest - the region now known as the Midwest - has been largely overlooked in American cultural history, represented as a place smoothly assimilated into the expanding, Manifestly Destined nation. An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture studies the primary texts and principal conflicts of the settlement of ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
7	Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacacori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'Odham more books like this by Thomas E Sheridan add to wishlist Sheridan explores how the penetration of the evolving capitalist world-system created and destroyed communities in the Upper Santa Cruz Valley of Arizona from the late 1600s to the 1970s. As the valley underwent a wrenching transition from a landscape of community to a landscape of fraud, the betrayal of the Oodham became complete when land, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments more books like this by Christopher Y Tilley, Bruce Kapferer (Editor), John Gledhill (Editor) add to wishlist Offering a new approach to landscape perception, this book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship ... see all copies from $21.97! new only from $27.08! \| SVS
9	Welcome to Heavenly Heights more books like this by Risa Miller add to wishlist A first novel written by PEN Discovery Award Winner Risa Miller, "Welcome to Heavenly Heights" describes a group of American Jews who have left the United States, not just to move to Israel, but to live in a settlement on the West Bank. Miller conjures a culture and a movement--part religion, part pipe dream--viewed through the pinhole of one ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	West from Shenandoah: A Scotch-Irish Family Fights for America, 1729-1781: A Journal of Discovery more books like this by Thomas A Lewis add to wishlist A memorable account of a forgotten chapter in American history If you think that America's western expansion began on the banks of the Mississippi, think again. In West from Shenandoah, Thomas A. Lewis tells the powerful and inspiring story of America's first westerners, the fiercely independent Scotch-Irish immigrants who flocked to America in ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $17.00!
11 view cover	A Place in the Rain Forest: Settling the Costa Rican Frontier more books like this by Darryl Cole-Christensen add to wishlist In the 1950s, Darryl Cole-Christensen and his family were among the first settlers of the Coto Brus, an almost impenetrable, mountainous rain forest region of southeastern Costa Rica. In this evocative book, he captures the elemental struggles and rewards of settling a new frontier--an experience forever closed to most people in Western, urbanized ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.35! \| first editions \| SVS
12	English Medieval Settlement more books like this by P H Sawyer add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! first editions
13	Prehispanic Settlement Patterns more books like this by David J Wilson add to wishlist see all copies from $3.50! new only from $7.98! \| first editions
14 view cover	Archaeology, History, and Predictive Modeling: Research at Fort Polk, 1972-2002 more books like this by David G Anderson, Steven D Smith, J W Joseph add to wishlist Fort Polk Military Reservation encompasses approximately 139,000 acres in western Louisiana 40 miles southwest of Alexandria. As a result of federal mandates for cultural resource investigation, more archaeological work has been undertaken there, beginning in the 1970s, than has occurred at any other comparably sized area in Louisiana or at most ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $4.17! \| first editions
15 view cover	Creatures of Change: An Album of Ohio Animals more books like this by Carolyn V Platt, Gary Meszaros (Photographer) add to wishlist Ohio was once covered by a thick forest and populated by a great variety of animals. However, the effects of native settlement upon animal species varied widely, and the fortunes of many rose and fell. This is an examination of 200 years of wildlife in Ohio. see all copies from $3.10! new only from $9.30! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The English Settlements more books like this by John N. Myres add to wishlist The English Settlements is a masterly account of the Dark Ages in the light of evidence from literary sources, the relevant archaeological remains both in England and on the Continent, and place-names and other linguistic developments. J. N. L. Myres draws attention to some little-understood factors which seem to link Roman Britain with Anglo ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	Rural Settlement and Land Use more books like this by Michael Chisholm add to wishlist To a remarkable extent, students of location problems have fastened attention upon industrial and urban matters rather than upon agricultural and rural affairs. The preponderance of the former studies undoubtedly reflects the relative importance of the manufacturing and commercial sectors of the technically more advanced countries where most ... see all copies from $5.45! new only from $23.71! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Early Mesoamerican Village: Archaeological Research Strategy for an Endangered Species more books like this by Kent V Flannery (Editor) add to wishlist A continuing dialogue on methods and goals between the Real Mesoamerican Archaeologist, the Great Synthesizer, and the Skeptical Graduate Student ties together chapters on methods and results in the archeology of Formative Mesoamerica to create a book that is as much about archeologists and archeology as about the culture they study. The dialogue, ... see all copies from $38.99!
19 view cover	The Domestication of the Human Species more books like this by Peter J Wilson add to wishlist In this exciting new book the author of Man, the Promising Primate takes domestication as the starting point for his continued inquiry into human evolution. Peter J. Wilson believes that the most radical and far-reaching innovation in human development was this settling down into a built environment, and he argues that it had a crucial effect on ... see all copies from $3.18! new only from $24.59! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment?: Reforming Resettlement Through Investments and Benefit-Sharing more books like this by Michael M Cernea (Editor), Hari Mohan Mathur (Editor) add to wishlist This volume provides a new impetus to search for practical solutions to forced displacement. It brings to the fore new ideas and policy recommendations which hope to overcome shortcomings or omissions in current thinking, policies and practices. see all copies from $14.98! new only from $14.98! \| first editions
21 view cover	This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775 more books like this by Bradford J Wood add to wishlist Between 1700 and 1775 no colony in British America experienced more impressive growth than North Carolina, and no region within the colony developed as rapidly as the Lower Cape Fear. Totally uninhabited by Europeans in 1700, this isolated corner of North Carolina's southern coast is particularly noteworthy for its relatively late colonization and ... see all copies from $6.47! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
22	Town and Country in Southeastern Anatolia, Volume 1: Settlement and Land Use at Kurban Hoyuk and Other Sites in the Lower Karababa Basin more books like this by David Gurney (Editor), M M a McDonald (Editor), N F Miller (Editor) add to wishlist This is a report on a detailed survey conducted within an area of 100 km2 along the south (left) bank of the River Euphrates (Firat Nehri) in southeastern Turkey. The survey provided a fourteen period sequence of settlement covering a span of 8,000 years. Population growth during the late Chalcolithic and the mid-late Early Bronze Age appears to ... see all copies from $13.79! new only from $18.73! \| first editions
23 view cover	Sahel Visions: Planned Settlement and River Blindness Control in Burkina Faso more books like this by Della E McMillan add to wishlist When an international health initiative succeeded in wiping out onchocerciasis (river blindness) in Burkina Faso (previously Upper Volta), it allowed the settlement of the sparsely populated Volta Valley by the Mossi people - a development plan by which the Burkinabe government sought to relieve population pressure, establish communities, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies
24 view cover	Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns: An Archaeological Study at Moundville more books like this by Vincas P Steponaitis add to wishlist Moundville, located on the Black Warrior River in west-central Alabama, is one of the best known and most intensively studied archaeological sites in North America. Yet, in spite of all these investigations, many aspects of the site's internal chronology remained unknown until the original 1983 publication of this volume. The author embarked on a ... see all copies from $13.69! new only from $38.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Communities in North-West Europe 400-900 more books like this by Helena Hamerow add to wishlist The excavation of settlements has in recent years transformed our understanding of north-west Europe in the early Middle Ages. We can for the first time begin to answer fundamental questions such as: what did houses look like and how were they furnished? how did villages and individual farmsteads develop? how and when did agrarian production ... see all copies from $52.67! new only from $52.67! \| SVS

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