What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming ...

The chapters of this book consist of a series of lectures given ... of old maps as well as other illustrations. The Great Age of Discovery. Edited by A. P. Newton. Pp. xi + 230 + 31 plates.

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