Patterns in American History, Volume 1Alexander DeConde, Armin Rappaport, William R. Steckel |
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... human development has been over- looked . In every problem of history there are two main factors , variously stated as heredity and environment , man and his geographic conditions , the internal forces of race and the external forces of ...
... human development has been over- looked . In every problem of history there are two main factors , variously stated as heredity and environment , man and his geographic conditions , the internal forces of race and the external forces of ...
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... human nature that characterized both Romanticism and the Enlightenment . In a certain sense , it was only a modification of the idea of progress . The idea also had , in some contexts , strong patriotic overtones . It was , in short ...
... human nature that characterized both Romanticism and the Enlightenment . In a certain sense , it was only a modification of the idea of progress . The idea also had , in some contexts , strong patriotic overtones . It was , in short ...
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... human beings have never had a decent human chance to be full men . Most of us may be convinced that even with opportunity the number of utter hu- man failures would be vast ; and yet remember that this assumption kept the ancestors of ...
... human beings have never had a decent human chance to be full men . Most of us may be convinced that even with opportunity the number of utter hu- man failures would be vast ; and yet remember that this assumption kept the ancestors of ...
Contents
THE GEOGRAPHIC SETTING | 1 |
John B Brebner The Patterns of the Continent | 10 |
Semple The Rivers and the Appalachian Barrier | 17 |
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