The evolution of northwest coast warfare

Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 267-302

  Maschner, Herbert D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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