Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... later , become entirely a slave - holding nation , or entirely a free- labor nation.13 What Seward had done , and would do again , was to interpret the conflict between two forms of labor in terms of a con- flict between labor and ...
... later , become entirely a slave - holding nation , or entirely a free- labor nation.13 What Seward had done , and would do again , was to interpret the conflict between two forms of labor in terms of a con- flict between labor and ...
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... later James Fenimore Cooper published a romance of the Revolu- tion that succeeded because what the novelist erected on the field of the conflict was not a theatre , but a home containing a family . That the publication of The Spy in ...
... later James Fenimore Cooper published a romance of the Revolu- tion that succeeded because what the novelist erected on the field of the conflict was not a theatre , but a home containing a family . That the publication of The Spy in ...
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... Later Melville indicates that the events whose prophecy Jones embodies are not solely French . They are also American , and in 1855 they have not yet all come to pass . Jones ' prophetic character becomes most clearly apparent to ...
... Later Melville indicates that the events whose prophecy Jones embodies are not solely French . They are also American , and in 1855 they have not yet all come to pass . Jones ' prophetic character becomes most clearly apparent to ...
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