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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Omohundro Ins
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Language: en
Pages: 465
Pages: 465
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify? A nation
Language: en
Pages: 401
Pages: 401
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Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions
Language: en
Pages: 412
Pages: 412
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
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