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"This book is first and foremost about the Romans themselves: who they were, how they defined themselves, where they lived and what they did to live their lives. ... The current volume is a sourcebook, a collection of evidence from the Roman world in the form of primary sources: texts, artifacts, and architecture that were created by the Romans themselves."--Preface.
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Documents of Texas History, a valuable reference work for students, teachers, scholars and history aficionados, provides and in-depth, first-hand understanding of Texas history. Originally published in 1963, this edition has been updated to cover the last thirty years and includes 141 documents of a broad range of social, cultural and political events which have shaped the history of Texas and often affected the nation. The documents, drawn from a...
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"For centuries, westerners have referred to China's numerous traditions of spiritual expression as 'religious'--A word born of western thought that cannot completely characterize the passionate writing that fills the pages of this pathbreaking anthology. The first of its kind in well over thirty years, this text offers the student of Chinese ritual and cosmology the broadest range of primary sources from antiquity to the modern era. Readings are arranged...
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Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state, they recorded detailed information about the locations and lifeways of Texas's Native peoples. Using recent translations of these expedition diaries and...
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For many years Indianola was a major port for importing supplies for ranching and farming, and for exporting products, such as hides. Book has some material on the Taylor-Sutton feud and the killing of Bill Sutton by Jim Taylor. Includes H. E. Bolton's "Location of La Salle's colony on the Gulf of Mexico..", and information on camels in Texas, early cattle industry, German colonization, Civil War, etc. On page 88 is a section "Cattle Stealing Common."...
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