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Jefferson's America, 1760-1815
by Norman K. Risjord
ISBN: 0945612257
ISBN-13: 9780945612254
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Published date: 1991
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
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Jefferson's America, 1760-1815
Norman K. Risjord
Madison House. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information) Offered by Better World Books (United States)
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Jefferson's America, 1760-1815
Risjord, Norman K
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Madison House Publishers, 1991. Some underlining, highlighting, margin writing, but overall a nice, tight copy. Independence created as many difficulties as it solved. Still to be deter-mined was the viability of the fragile union among the thirteen states, the stability and integrity of the republic they created, as well as the site and character of the popular b ase on which it rested. In resolving these issues Americans had a number of advantages from the beginning. They possessed, for instance, a common language, literature, and law. With the exception of' the African American minority there was substantial et hnic homogeneity. Americans, as a result, seemed more concerned with their mutual interests than with their differences. As their political institutions matured they searched self-consciously for symbols of national identity, and they found them everywhe re-in Noah Webster's "blue-backed speller, " in the Bunker Hill monument, in the Fourth of July, in the Roman forums that graced Washington, D. C. . ISBN: 0945612257 . Soft Cover. Good. UNITED STATES HISTORY FRENCH INDIAN. ( more information) Offered by The Long Island Book Company (United States)
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Risjord, Norman K
Madison House Pub, 1991 Soft Cover. Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Bookman (United States)
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Risjord, Norman K
Madison WI: Madison House, 1991 Lower corners stained on several of first 30 pages, else near fine.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. ( more information) Offered by david's books (United States)
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Norman K. Risjord
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Jefferson's America: 1760 - 1815
Risjord, Norman K
Lanham, MD: Madison House/Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new. "fair and insightful introduction to the amazing Revolutionary Era." ISBN: 0945612257. ( more information) Offered by Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (United States)
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