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Jane E. Mangan's Trading Roles explores aspects of life in POTOSÍ that I have not been able to get into here, focusing more on its trade interactions than on the experience of native miners. For more on Potosí, see Bartolome Arzáns de ...
Journal of a Visit to the Georgia Islands is a record of that trip, and although unsigned, internal evidence points directly to prominent Georgia entrepreneur Jonathan Bryan (1708-1788) as the author.
一八五四年三月,英國博物學家華萊士離開英國前往馬來群島,目的是發掘並採集各種西方世界原來不曾知悉的動植物種,以做為私藏並供應複本給博物館與業餘收藏者。接下來,他 ...
Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English.
... is the naphtha flame thrower (fang meng huo yu). The tank is made of brass and supported on four legs. From its upper surface arise four vertical tubes attached to a horizontal cylinder above. They are all connected with the tank.
53 Senator Smith : probably John William Smith who represented Bexar County at the Seventh , Eighth and Ninth ... 64 Charles Fenton Mercer ( 1778-1858 ) would by now be disassociated from the Peters Colony having received his own ...
J. Pentland. Davidson, D. M. 1966. “Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico, 1519–1650.” HAHR46:235–53. Davis, D. B. 2006. Inhuman Bondage. The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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