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Part II - Social Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
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Louisiana State University
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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 109 - 284
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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