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Library of American civilization volume LAC 23578-601
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G.P.O
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1890
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English
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Library of American civilization volume LAC 23575-77
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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1885-1891
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English
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English
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Desertion during the Civil War, originally published in 1928, remains the only book-length treatment of its subject. Ella Lonn examines the causes and consequences of desertion from both the Northern and Southern armies. Drawing on official war records, she notes that one in seven enlisted Union soldiers and one in nine Confederate soldiers deserted. Lonn discusses many reasons for desertion common to both armies, among them lack of such necessities...
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"To the superficial observer there would seem never to have been an age less propitious for the birth of a new nation. The tendency of the times was altogether for the aggrandizement of big states and the consolidation of their territory at the expense of the little ones, for the extinction of the weaker nations and governments rather than for the creation of new ones. Nevertheless it was this bitter cut-throat international rivalry which was to make...
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"The history of America, many historians argue, is the history of its small towns. Norwegian American scholar Odd S. Lovoll takes the premise one step further in Norwegians on the Prairie, tracing the development of three midwestern towns whose histories reveal a distinctively ethnic flavor."
"Benson, Madison, and Starbuck, all located on the western Minnesota prairie, were settled primarily by Norwegians and served as urban centers - railroad hubs,...
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Cornell University Press
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©1980.
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English
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"Is there a distinctive American style of historical scholarship? To what extent have quantitative methods and computer technology affected the writing of history? Has descriptive history been supplanted by analytical history? What constitutes adequate historical explanation? These are just a few of the questions addressed in "The Past Before Us." The contributors, twenty-one distinguished historians, discuss the state of their profession today and...
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Congressional Quarterly
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©1986
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English
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A collection of essays discussing the theoretical origins and revolutionary context of the Constitution, its application to issues such as civil liberties and national versus state powers, and the evolution of the three branches of government.