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  • The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840

    by Jack Larkin ...
    A fascinating history of the daily lives of Americans in the first fifty years of the new republic, told often in their own words.The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of startling changes in American life. However, most American were enmeshed in the myriad ordinary concerns of their lives, and although ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where We Worked

    A Celebration Of America's Workers And The Nation They Built

    by Jack Larkin ...
    A celebration of America's workers and the nation they built. Narratives tell the stories, over time, of wheat growers and sharecroppers, mill girls and housemaids, gold miners and railway porters, farmwives and cowboys, newsboys and stenographers. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    The Reshaping of Everyday Life

    1790–1840

    by Jack Larkin ...
    Narrated by Tom Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    A fascinating history of the daily lives of Americans in the first fifty years of the new republic, told often in their own words.The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of startling changes in American life. However, most American were enmeshed in the myriad ordinary concerns of their lives, and although ... Read more

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  • The Pope of Physics

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