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Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Purdue University Press
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Language: en
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Pages: 417
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-25 - Publisher: JHU Press
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Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-12 - Publisher: Voyageur Press
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Language: en
Pages: 130
Pages: 130
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-26 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were develo
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
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