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The story of how the gigantic land of America acquired its unique shape across 3000 miles of territory, and how the largest land survey in history paved the way both for a colossal sale of property and for the embedding of democracy and the spirit of independence in the psyche of Americans.

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The 1960s and 1970s was a time of repression and a time of freedom, a time of ferment rarely seen before in this country. Social and political revolutions took place: Civil rights, women's liberation, protests against the irrelevancies of education and social norms, a counter-culture revolution on the part of young people.

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The 1960s and 1970s was a time of repression and a time of freedom, a time of ferment rarely seen before in this country. Social and political revolutions took place: Civil rights, women's liberation, protests against the irrelevancies of education and social norms, a counter-culture revolution on the part of young people.

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Examining the lives of officers' wives who lived on the western frontier, this study challenges the notion that the western Army garrison was a male-only environment and widens the definition of frontier women to include those who experienced the west from within garrison walls.

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The volume concludes with an analysis of the progressive impulse and contrasts progressive views with resurrected Gilded Age mythology, the new ideas of the 1980s.

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A study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Independent Mexico from the achievement of Independence in 1821 to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's last government in 1853-55.

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Details the history, evolution, and changing relationship between the armed forces and civilian leadership in Mexico in the second half of the 20th century. This work draws from published and unpublished sources, military websites, and material obtained through information requests made directly through the secretariat of national defense.

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This study reveals how the social pact, formalized during the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and implemented during the second stage (1920-40), was upset during the third or arrested stage (1940-70) when the bureaucrat-professionals at the helm opted for intensive economic development by taking the capitalist road.

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This study reveals how the social pact, formalized during the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and implemented during the second stage (1920-40), was upset during the third or arrested stage (1940-70) when the bureaucrat-professionals at the helm opted for intensive economic development by taking the capitalist road.

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A concise overview of 20th- and 21st-century Mexico, this volume explores the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the world's largest Spanish-speaking country.

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This book inquires into what Americans mean when they call the United States a middle-class nation and why the vast majority of Americans identify themselves as middle class. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distingu

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Part of a series which examines the complex relationship between the US government, the US military, and the civilian population in wartime and peacetime, this work analyzes the militarization of life in the Confederacy. It probes the relationships between military commanders, legislators, and Jefferson Davis and his administration.

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Traveling from the Natchez Trace to the cotton fields of the Delta, Walton assesses Mississippi's legacy of nostalgia, bitterness, and heartache. He weaves in the stories of his family, as well as those of slaves and Confederate generals, redneck demagogues and civil rights martyrs, writers and bluesmen, black and white. 12 photos.

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The last major battle of the Civil War, the Federal campaign against Mobile, the last Southern city that remained in rebel hands, was a military operation involving 45,000 Union soldiers and 9000 Confederates. This work provides a treatment of the campaign.

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On April 3, 1974, over a sixteen-hour period, nature stepped forward with its display of mayhem, as an outbreak of 148 tornadoes descended on the US. The destruction wrought was horrifying. This title follows the path of a twin set of F5s - the rarest, and most deadly, category of tornado, and their impact on a cast of intertwined characters.

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