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Author Name: Randel, William Peirce
Title: Centennial : American Life in 1876
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Philadelphia Chilton 1969
Seller ID: 304-4144
Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt and metallic red; the front panel in gilt. Octavo. Red topstain and gold endpapers. [x] + 475pps. Stated First Edition. There is a slight touch of fading to the cloth at the head of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has light wear at the spine-ends and there is a small, vintage bookseller's label affixed to the bottom of the front flap. The original price is intact.
"...Here is an analytic portrait of America in the year 1876, the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the nation. The author records in both his own words and those of contemporary observers the tremendous diversity of the growing nation, offering in rich and minute detail glimpses of every aspect of American life in 1876.
Randel pictures sprawling Centennial America as comprising three great stages of the ongoing frontier process: the securely civilized East, where New England retained its 'meeting-house pattern of church-town government,' the Middle States furnished capital and people for the needs of new sections, and the South was struggling to adjust economically and racially to the lingering effects of the Civil War; the frontier, which ran almost due north and south across the waist of the nation; and the wilderness, its vast sweep disturbed only by the outreach of the herdsmen, the extension of the railroad and mining interests, and the presence of Indians..."
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WILLIAM PEIRCE RANDEL CENTENNIAL FIRST EDITIONS NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY 1876 HISTORICAL NONFICTION
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