The Oxford companion to United States history /

Features over 1,400 entries that illuminate not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends, science, technology, and medicine, the arts, and religion. Includes familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Fran...

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Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Boyer, Paul S., Dubofsky, Melvyn, 1934-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, Eng. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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