Author: Samuel Clark
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The boy's book of his own country. By rev. T. Wilson
Author: Samuel Clark
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Pages : 308
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Pages : 308
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The Boy's Book of His Own Country
Author: Rev. Thomas Wilson (Editor of the Catechisms.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Pages : 306
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Index to the British Catalogue of Books: 1837-1857. 1858
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Catalogue of the Educational Division of the South Kensington Museum. Fourth edition
Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Pages : 320
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Catalogue of the Educational Divisions of the South Kensington Museum
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Pages : 1162
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Pages : 1162
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Authors and Their Works with Dates
Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Pages : 930
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Science and Art department of the Committee of Council on Education. Inventory of the objects forming the collections of the museum of ornamental art at South Kensington
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Pages : 964
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Pages : 964
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America in 1857
Author: Kenneth M. Stampp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199729034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Mormon governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northern Republicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). And when a proslavery minority in Kansas Territory tried to foist a proslavery constitution on a large antislavery majority, President Buchanan reneged on a crucial commitment and supported the minority, a disastrous miscalculation which ultimately split the Democratic party in two. In America in 1857, eminent American historian Kenneth Stampp offers a sweeping narrative of this eventful year, covering all the major crises while providing readers with a vivid portrait of America at mid-century. Stampp gives us a fascinating account of the attempt by William Walker and his band of filibusters to conquer Nicaragua and make it a slave state, of crime and corruption, and of street riots by urban gangs such as New York's Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys and Baltimore's Plug Uglies and Blood Tubs. But the focus continually returns to Kansas. He examines the outrageous political frauds perpetrated by proslavery Kansans, Buchanan's calamitous response and Stephen Douglas's break with the President (a rare event in American politics, a major party leader repudiating the president he helped elect), and the whirl of congressional votes and dramatic debates that led to a settlement humiliating to Buchanan--and devastating to the Democrats. 1857 marked a turning point, at which sectional conflict spun out of control and the country moved rapidly toward the final violent resolution in the Civil War. Stampp's intensely focused look at this pivotal year illuminates the forces at work and the mood of the nation as it plummeted toward disaster.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199729034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Mormon governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northern Republicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). And when a proslavery minority in Kansas Territory tried to foist a proslavery constitution on a large antislavery majority, President Buchanan reneged on a crucial commitment and supported the minority, a disastrous miscalculation which ultimately split the Democratic party in two. In America in 1857, eminent American historian Kenneth Stampp offers a sweeping narrative of this eventful year, covering all the major crises while providing readers with a vivid portrait of America at mid-century. Stampp gives us a fascinating account of the attempt by William Walker and his band of filibusters to conquer Nicaragua and make it a slave state, of crime and corruption, and of street riots by urban gangs such as New York's Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys and Baltimore's Plug Uglies and Blood Tubs. But the focus continually returns to Kansas. He examines the outrageous political frauds perpetrated by proslavery Kansans, Buchanan's calamitous response and Stephen Douglas's break with the President (a rare event in American politics, a major party leader repudiating the president he helped elect), and the whirl of congressional votes and dramatic debates that led to a settlement humiliating to Buchanan--and devastating to the Democrats. 1857 marked a turning point, at which sectional conflict spun out of control and the country moved rapidly toward the final violent resolution in the Civil War. Stampp's intensely focused look at this pivotal year illuminates the forces at work and the mood of the nation as it plummeted toward disaster.
The English catalogue of books
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Pages : 936
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Pages : 936
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