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Book Title: Flowers, Guns, And Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett And The Para...
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Flowers, Guns, and Money : Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: United States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: American Beginnings, 1500-1900 Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
