In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards makes clear the links between the California Gold Rush and many of the regional crises in the lead-up to the Civil War.
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In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards makes clear the links between the California Gold Rush and many of the regional crises in the lead-up to the Civil War.
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Good in very good dust jacket. BCE. Text is w/o highlighting, marginalia, etc.; binding is sound; boards are clean w/minor bump to head & tail of spine & bottom front corner; rubbing, creasing, & a few minor chips to DJ. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 289 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. ix, [1], 289, [3] p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. From an University of Massachusetts at Amherst on-line posting: "Professor Richards, also a former Chairman of the Department, won the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Prize in 1970 for his "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America (1970). He has written a textbook on the Jacksonian era, The Advent of American Democracy (1977), co-edited a collection of documents on American History, The American Record (1982, 1987, 1995), and written The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams (1986), a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for biography. His book The Slave Power: the Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (2000) won second place in the prestigious Lincoln Prize Competition. HIs most recent book, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, was published in 2002. His book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, was published in 2007. "
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