Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 2, From Conquest and Colonization through Reconstruction and the Great Uprising of 1877.

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ALEX KEYSSAR WHO BUILT AMERICA? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society. Volume 1: From Conquest and Colonization Through Reconstruction and the Great Uprising of 1877. By Bruce Levine, Stephen

Brier, David Brundage, Edward Countryman, Dorothy Fennell, Marcus Rediker, Joshua Brown (Visual Editor). the American Social History Project, under the direction of Herbert G. Gutman. Pantheon. 606 pp. $34.95.

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