Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the RevolutionThe winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in History is reinterpreted by the foremost colonial historian of American history, using the perspective of migration as an organizing principle. 32 photos, 19 maps. |
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