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Author Kennedy, Roger G.

Title Hidden cities : the discovery and loss of ancient North American civilization / Roger G. Kennedy.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1994]
©1994

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  720.97 KENNEDY    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  970.004 KENNEDY    Check Shelf
Description vii, 372 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index.
Contents Introduction: Coming over and into the valley -- The founders of American architecture: The cultures that nourished them, and the great dying -- Albert Gallatin and the possibility of understanding -- Bloody years amid the ruins -- The Gallatinians: Thomas Worthington and Adena -- George Washington: His land, its inhabitants, and the Cincinnatian solution -- The Cincinnati -- Thomas Jefferson and the persistence of prejudice -- Jefferson's archaeologists: Part one -- Jefferson's archaeologists: Part two -- Evangelism and Amnesia: Explaining away the mounds -- Why were the mounds built? --Appendix A. Thomas Jefferson and Nicholas Biddle -- Appendix B. William Dunbar on the wonders of Arkansas -- Appendix C. Mr. Brackenrdge speaks for himself.
Subject Indians of North America -- Antiquities.
Mound-builders -- United States.
Architecture -- United States -- History.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Antiquities.
Subject Indianists -- United States -- Biography.
Archaeologists -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Antiquities.
Indian architecture -- United States.
Local Subject Indigenous architecture -- United States.
Indigenous studies scholars -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0029173078: $24.95
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