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Paradoxes of Prosperity: Wealth Seeking in Pre-Civil War America
Paradoxes of Prosperity Wealth Seeking in PreCivil War America
Author: Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, Dwight L. Teeter Jr.
In the midst of the United States' immense economic growth in the 1850s, Americans worried about whether the booming agricultural, industrial, and commercial expansion came at the price of cherished American values such as honesty, hard work, and dedication to the common good. Was the nation becoming greedy, selfish, vulgar, and cruel? Was there...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780252034534
ISBN-10: 0252034538
Publication Date: 7/21/2009
Pages: 168
Edition: 1st Edition
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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