| Description |
271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-261) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : history through things you can touch -- Axe head, adze head: the Pequot War -- A compass, a rifle, and the opening of the West -- Yr Most obt Servt, G. Washington: The constitutional convention -- Daguerreotype and sword: seminole and Mexican Wars -- Shavings from a scaffold: The hanging of John Brown -- Diaries from Indian Country, Civil War back home -- Travels of an English pistol -- A killing in the Philippines -- An award from General Pershing -- The Czar of Halfaday Creek and Hitler's toilet bowl. |
| Subject |
United States -- Antiquities.
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United States -- History.
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Material culture -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780253008336 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253008336 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780253008442 eb |
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0253008441 eb |
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