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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Our nation began with the simple phrase, “We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity
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In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ag
Reforming Men and Women
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Authors: Bruce Dorsey
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Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field
The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861
Language: en
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With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two