The Course of EmpireHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - 647 pages Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805. |
Table des matières
The Children of the Sun | 3 |
The Spanish Entrances | 37 |
The Spectrum of Knowledge | 51 |
Early Ideas of North America | 56 |
The Northwestern Mystery | 76 |
The Iron Men | 83 |
The West to the 1670s | 101 |
The Mississippi | 116 |
TwelveYear Armistice | 231 |
Jonathan Carvers North America | 249 |
Prime Meridian | 263 |
The Kentucky Merchant | 272 |
Escalantes Journey | 295 |
Equinoctial Tide | 315 |
The Northwest Coast | 325 |
The Canadian West 1790s | 352 |
Hudson Bay Region | 125 |
The Heartland | 131 |
Converging Frontiers | 159 |
The Heartland | 176 |
The World Turned Upside Down | 195 |
The Canoe Route Lake Superior | 197 |
Vérendryes Progress | 204 |
The Armed Frontier | 221 |
The Santa Fe Trail | 361 |
The Gates of the Continent 380381 | 380 |
Fur Company Posts | 453 |
The Route of Lewis and Clark 472473 | 472 |
The Passage to India | 487 |
The Dilemma of Lewis and Clark 500501 | 500 |
The Race to the Pacific 532533 | 533 |
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