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Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia

Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia

E. Digby Baltzell

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1996
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9781560008309
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Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation

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