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- From: wagner@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Request: History books
- Message-ID: <15204.2b3702cb@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:58:03 GMT
- References: <1h79vvINN7fr@meaddata.meaddata.com> <1h7ch8INNdhi@transfer.stratus.com>
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
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- In article <1h7ch8INNdhi@transfer.stratus.com>, jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:
- >
- > Also, how many books do you want for each period. I could
- > easily recommend half a dozen good books on the period 1776-1790
- > and a dozen on the American Civil War and the times leading up
- > to it.
- >
- > ----
- > Jim Mann
- > Stratus Computer jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
- >
-
- I wonder, do you know of any good books on the period 1776-1790 which might
- address these two questions:
-
- 1) How many of the europeans in America in, say, 1790 had arrived
- voluntarily? {The endless quibbles about "voluntarily"... I'd
- really like to know how many were deportees [Georgia
- had a particularly good stock of these, I think], how many had a
- choice between these barbarian shores and debtor's prison, and
- how many were destitute upon arrival}
-
- 2) How did the revolution affect the distribution of wealth in the
- colonies? {Did merchants, bankers, or farmers get a bigger
- slice of the pie after the changes?}
-
- None of the books about the glorious birth of the US that I've seen
- have talked about either of these questions. I sincerely hope it's
- because I've been looking in the wrong places....
-
- -Luke
- wagner@mps.ohio-state.edu
-