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Book cover for Elaine S. Abelson: When Ladies Go A-Thieving

When Ladies Go A-Thieving : Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store

Elaine S. Abelson
Paperback - $90.95



Book cover for Bruce Ackerman: The Failure of the Founding Fathers

The Failure of the Founding Fathers : Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy

Bruce Ackerman
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The ink was barely dry on the Constitution when it was almost destroyed by the rise of political parties in the United States. As Bruce Ackerman shows, the Framers had not anticipated the two-party system, and when Republicans battled Federalists for ...

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Adams : History of the United Stae During the Administrations of Madison

Henry Adams
Hardcover - $69.95

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library ...

Book cover for Diana L. Ahmad: The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West

The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West

Diana L. Ahmad
Hardcover - $75.95

America's current struggle with drug addiction is not the nation's first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium add ...

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