America Aflame: How The Civil War Created A Nation
by David Goldfield
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1596917024
- ISBN 13
- 9781596917026
- Seller
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Lubbock, Texas, United States
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£68.07£17.02
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About This Item
This book is in very good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards. There is essentially no bumping or fraying on the cover boards, although there is some wear on the dust jacket. The pages are beginning to yellow but there are no markings on the pages.
"Convent Life no longer suited Sister Mary John. Born Elizabeth Harrison in Philadelphia, she had converted to the Catholic faith and entered the Ursuline order at the age of eighteen in 1824. By all accounts, Sister Mary John was a gifted teacher and musician. Now in this sweltering summer of 1834 at the order's convent school in Charlestown, Massachusetts, she walked out. The oppressive heat, teaching fourteen forty-five minute lessons a day, conducting music classes, and attending to administrative duties as the Mother Assistant became overwhelming. She needed some time off...." - Chapter One from America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
"Convent Life no longer suited Sister Mary John. Born Elizabeth Harrison in Philadelphia, she had converted to the Catholic faith and entered the Ursuline order at the age of eighteen in 1824. By all accounts, Sister Mary John was a gifted teacher and musician. Now in this sweltering summer of 1834 at the order's convent school in Charlestown, Massachusetts, she walked out. The oppressive heat, teaching fourteen forty-five minute lessons a day, conducting music classes, and attending to administrative duties as the Mother Assistant became overwhelming. She needed some time off...." - Chapter One from America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
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- Bookseller
- Revue & Revalued Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 544
- Title
- America Aflame
- Author
- David Goldfield
- Format/Binding
- The binding is tight and solid.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1596917024
- ISBN 13
- 9781596917026
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- March, 2011
- Keywords
- Nation, Reborn, Crusades, Empire, Revolutions, Railroaded
- Bookseller catalogs
- The American Revolution; Civil War; American History; Historical;
- Size
- Octavo
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