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Product Description: In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded political scientist to examine the long, formative academic phase of Wilson's career and its connection to his relatively brief tenure in politics...read more
By James Axtell (editor)
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9780813931944, titled "The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: From College to Nation" | Univ of Virginia Pr, December 31, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded political scientist to examine the long, formative academic phase of Wilson's career and its connection to his relatively brief tenure in politics.

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Product Description: In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse...read more
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9780691126869 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 10, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions.

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Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the present day, this dramatic, richly illustrated chronicle of America traces the nation's history through a series of seminal events that changed the course of history and offers close-up profiles of key figures who played a vital role in shaping our nation. 50,000 first printing.
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9780789489036 | Pearson Prentice Hall, October 1, 2002, cover price $42.60 | About this edition: A chronicle of America traces the nation's history through a series of seminal events that changed the course of history and offers profiles of figures who played a vital role in shaping our nation.
9789990143812 | Dk Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: Natives and Newcomers describes the major encounters between Indians and Europeans -- first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social and sexual mingling, work, conversions, military clashes -- and probes the short- and long-term consequences for both cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195137705 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 31, 2000, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Natives and Newcomers describes the major encounters between Indians and Europeans -- first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social and sexual mingling, work, conversions, military clashes -- and probes the short- and long-term consequences for both cultures.

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9780195137712 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 31, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In the past thirty years historians have come to realize that the shape and temper of early America was determined as much by its Indian natives as it was by its European colonizers.

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Product Description: In this timely book, historian James Axtell offers a compelling defense of higher education. Drawing on national statistics, broad-ranging scholarship, and delightful anecdotes, Axtell describes the professorial work cycle, the evolution of scholarship in the past three decades, the importance of “habitual scholarship,” and the best ways to judge a university...read more
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9780803210493, titled "The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In this timely book, historian James Axtell offers a compelling defense of higher education.

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9780803259386 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this timely book, historian James Axtell offers a compelling defense of higher education.

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Product Description: A survey of three catalytic centuries of Indian-white relations In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries...read more
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9780807121719 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A survey of three catalytic centuries of Indian-white relations In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

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9780807121726 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A survey of three catalytic centuries of Indian-white relations In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

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9780879351533 | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, December 1, 1995, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: This volume comprises a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the foremost contemporary authority on Indian-European relations in Colonial North America...read more
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9780195053753 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 25, 1988, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This volume is a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the foremost contemporary authority on Indian-European relations in Colonial North America.

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9780195053760 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 22, 1990), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This volume comprises a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the foremost contemporary authority on Indian-European relations in Colonial North America.

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Product Description: In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history...read more
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9780195068382 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 17, 1992, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history.

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9780195080339 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 17, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history.

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9780872290648 | Amer Historical Assn, September 1, 1991, cover price $7.00

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Product Description: Colonial North America was not only a battleground for furs and land, but also for allegiances and even souls. In the three-sided struggle for empire, the English and French colonists were locked in heated competition for native allies and religious converts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195035964 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 3, 1985, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Colonial North America was not only a battleground for furs and land, but for allegiances as well.

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9780195041545 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 27, 1986), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Colonial North America was not only a battleground for furs and land, but also for allegiances and even souls.

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Studies the interaction between white settlers and native Americans during the colonial period
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9780195029031 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 13, 1981, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Studies the interaction between white settlers and native Americans during the colonial period

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9780195029048 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 4, 1982, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Studies the interaction between white settlers and native Americans during the colonial period

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9780877702108 | Ye Galleon Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $6.95

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