 | Legend and Lore of the Americas Before 1492: An Encyclopedia of Visitors, Explorers, and Immigrants by Ronald H. Fritze
Buy used from: $9.99 A collection of old legends, about explorers who may have reached America before Columbus, or (sometimes) even before the vikings. They're just legends, but it's interesting stuff.
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 | Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $4.54 The author argues that the search for cod was one of the reasons that America was discovered in the first place.
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 | A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America by Patricia Cohen
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $9.99 The importance of mathematics to the American character. To heck with Tocqueville -- how do Americans tally their assets?! An interesting insight into our national character.
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| Pre-Columbian Contact With the Americas Across the Oceans : An Annotated Bibliography by Sorenson
Buy used from: $37.61 Same as the above book, but much, much more comprehensive.
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 | Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization by Roger G. Kennedy
Buy used from: $1.44 Sprawling, cosmopolitan cities which existed in America long before Columbus.
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 | America's First Cuisines by Sophie D. Coe
Buy new: $18.76 / Used from: $15.93 Self-explanatory title.
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 | Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $4.02 Self-explanatory title.
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 | The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World by Larry Zuckerman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.82 The significance of our friend, The Noble Spud, in shaping the destiny of the Western Hemisphere.
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 | Story of Corn by Betty Fussell
Buy used from: $4.43 The significance of corn to early North, Central, and South American peoples.
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 | Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization by Iain Gately
Buy used from: $5.59 Another native American plant which helped to form our civilization.
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 | The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe
Buy used from: $3.90 Another native American crop which helped to form our civilization.
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 | John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father by Francis J. Bremer
Buy used from: $8.80 |
 | Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present by David F. Marley
Buy used from: $18.39 |
 | The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America by Frank Lambert
Buy new: $33.75 / Used from: $4.58 |
 | Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser
Buy new: $22.23 / Used from: $0.41 |
 | A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling
Buy used from: $5.59 |
 | To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn
Buy used from: $0.35 |
 | A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Jon Kukla
Buy new: $20.94 / Used from: $1.26 |
 | The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.45 |
 | Shh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.45 |
 | Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.93 |
 | And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Paperstar) by Jean Fritz
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.17 |
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