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9780674621015 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1959, cover price $21.00

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9780837156026, titled "John Dewey's Challenge to Education: Historical Perspectives on the Cultural Context" | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1959, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. No dust jacket
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9780674079809, titled "Boston's Immigrants: A Study of Acculturation" | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1959, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.

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9780674486003 | Belknap Pr, January 1, 1960, cover price $4.50

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Product Description: Using the ability of the individual to take action as a working measure of the extent of liberty at any time, Oscar Handlin and Mary Handlin identify and describe numerous factors that have had an important effect on American freedom since colonial days...read more
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9780674207509 | Belknap Pr, June 1, 1961, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Using the ability of the individual to take action as a working measure of the extent of liberty at any time, Oscar Handlin and Mary Handlin identify and describe numerous factors that have had an important effect on American freedom since colonial days.

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9780689700873 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1966, cover price $1.75 | About this edition: Using the ability of the individual to take action as a working measure of the extent of liberty at any time, Oscar Handlin and Mary Handlin identify and describe numerous factors that have had an important effect on American freedom since colonial days.

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Product Description: An unprecedented twentyfold growth of the world's largest cities since 1800 suggests that the city has become both the site and the symbol of modern civilization. Although cities have been examined from many special points of view, they have never received the cross-disciplinary study which their significance deserves...read more
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9780262580069 | Mit Pr, June 1, 1966, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An unprecedented twentyfold growth of the world's largest cities since 1800 suggests that the city has become both the site and the symbol of modern civilization.

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Product Description: Rarely is it possible to hear the voice of the people in a revolution except as it filters through the writings of articulate individuals who may not really be representative. But on several occasions during the effort to draft a constitution for Massachusetts after 1776, the citizens of the Commonwealth were asked to convene in their 300 town meetings to debate and convey to the legislators their political theories, needs, and aspirations...read more
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9780674690004 | Belknap Pr, June 1, 1966, cover price $178.50 | About this edition: Rarely is it possible to hear the voice of the people in a revolution except as it filters through the writings of articulate individuals who may not really be representative.

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Anthology of writings by the children of immigrants revealing their feelings of anxiety and alienation and their unique contributions to American life
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9780807603611 | George Braziller, June 1, 1966, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Anthology of writings by the children of immigrants revealing their feelings of anxiety and alienation and their unique contributions to American life

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Product Description: Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy. It revealed for the first time the importance of political action in the development of the American free enterprise system...read more
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9780674146907 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1969, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy.

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9780804614283 | Kennikat Pr, January 1, 1971, cover price $11.50

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Discusses the impact of the migration of diverse peoples to the United States, and describes the effect on family life and traditions as well as on political and social conditions in the country
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9780316343138 | Reissue edition (Little Brown & Co, August 30, 1973), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Discusses the impact of the migration of diverse peoples to the United States, and describes the effect on family life and traditions as well as on political and social conditions in the country

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9780837193342 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, March 1, 1977), cover price $41.95

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Product Description: One of the most eminent historians of our time offers here a perceptive guide to the study of history. Truth in History teaches how to read, how to analyze, how to discriminate. It is as helpful to the reader whose history is created daily in the news as it is to the professional historian whose field is in a crisis of disarray...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674910256 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 1, 1979, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The mentor for several generations of American historians, Handlin tackles the fundamental problems of his field--truth in history--discussing the limitations of the historian and the ways one can operate honestly within those limitations

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9781560009511 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, January 1, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One of the most eminent historians of our time offers here a perceptive guide to the study of history.
9780674910263 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1979, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: The mentor for several generations of American historians, Handlin tackles the fundamental problems of his field--truth in history--discussing the limitations of the historian and the ways one can operate honestly within those limitations

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Product Description: A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years.
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9780316343152 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years

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9781886746213 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins College Div, September 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years.
9780673393401 | Longman Pub Group, May 1, 1981, cover price $26.80 | About this edition: A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years

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9780884640110 | Anti Defamation League of Bnai, June 1, 1986, cover price $2.50

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Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels
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9780060390594 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

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Compiles the observations and impressions of Europeans who have travelled to the U.S. from the 1700's
By Oscar Handlin (editor)
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9780674884700 | Reissue edition (Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1986), cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Compiles the observations and impressions of Europeans who have travelled to the U.

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Product Description: Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy. It revealed for the first time the importance of political action in the development of the American free enterprise system...read more
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9780674146914 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $30.50 | About this edition: Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy.

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9781555530211 | Reprint edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, September 1, 1987), cover price $18.95

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Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels
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9780060390921 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1989, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

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Product Description: As fresh in 1991 as when it first published a half-century ago, Boston's Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and an important phase of the American experience. Focusing on the life of people from the perspective of the social historian, the book explores a wide range of subjects: peasants society and the cause of European migration, population growth and industrial development, the ideology of progress and Catholic thought, and urban politics and the dynamic of prejudice...read more
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9780674079861 | Rev enl su edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: As fresh in 1991 as when it first published a half-century ago, Boston's Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and an important phase of the American experience.

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Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels
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9780060391430 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1992, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

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Product Description: This interesting and insightful book examines the life of one of America's least favored presidents with a sensitive and objective eye. Herbert Hoover's career followed a pattern familiar in the history of the United States: humble beginnings surmounted by hard work and tremendous ambition, wealth, public service and, eventually, the presidency...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780881337051 | Reprint edition (Waveland Pr Inc, December 1, 1992), cover price $19.50 | About this edition: This interesting and insightful book examines the life of one of America's least favored presidents with a sensitive and objective eye.

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Product Description: This book examines the troubled era that transformed the United States after 1920, emphasizing the conditions of life of ordinary men and women and the structures of their society, not the theories of either liberty or equality elaborated by thoughtful scholars.
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9780060171537 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

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9780060955007 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This book examines the troubled era that transformed the United States after 1920, emphasizing the conditions of life of ordinary men and women and the structures of their society, not the theories of either liberty or equality elaborated by thoughtful scholars.

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Product Description: The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life...read more
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9781886746190 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins College Div, September 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored.

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