The weather is fine, wish you were here, because i'm the last one alive: "Learning" the environment in the English New World colonies

The Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes: The Archaeology of Adaptation

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 190-200

  Blanton, Dennis B ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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EID: 42949127922     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203422908     Document Type: Chapter

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