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9781612348148 | Potomac Books Inc, July 1, 2016, cover price $36.95
Product Description: In The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance, historian Paul Kahan explores one of the most important and dramatic events in American political and economic history, from the idea of centralized banking and the First Bank of the United States to Jackson's triumph, the era of "free banking," and the creation of the Federal Reserve System...read more
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9781594162343 | Westholme Pub Llc, December 17, 2015, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: In The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance, historian Paul Kahan explores one of the most important and dramatic events in American political and economic history, from the idea of centralized banking and the First Bank of the United States to Jackson's triumph, the era of "free banking," and the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
Product Description: On July 6, 1892, three hundred armed Pinkerton agents arrived in Homestead, Pennsylvania to retake the Carnegie Steelworks from the company's striking workers. As the agents tried to leave their boats, shots rang out and a violent skirmish began...read more
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9780415531948 | Routledge, December 14, 2013, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: On July 6, 1892, three hundred armed Pinkerton agents arrived in Homestead, Pennsylvania to retake the Carnegie Steelworks from the company's striking workers.
Product Description: Seminary of Virtue explores the history of penal education programs, demonstrating that Americaâs prisons have historically been educational (as well as punitive) institutions. This volume argues that Eastern State Penitentiaryâs extensive and aggressive educational program reflected a general American belief that correctional institutions should educate inmates as a way of reducing recidivism and thereby «reforming» them...read more
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9781433113413 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 15, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Seminary of Virtue explores the history of penal education programs, demonstrating that Americaâs prisons have historically been educational (as well as punitive) institutions.
Product Description: Eastern State Penitentiary: A History documents the stories of the men and the method that shaped one of Philadelphiaâs most recognizable landmarks. In this superbly balanced and thoroughly researched volume,Paul Kahan presents the history of this revolutionary penitentiary, from its inception as a model of the revolutionary Pennsylvania System of incarceration in 1829 to the demands for its closure in the wake of ever-increasing violence in 1971...read more
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9781596294035 | History Pr, September 15, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Eastern State Penitentiary: A History documents the stories of the men and the method that shaped one of Philadelphiaâs most recognizable landmarks.
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