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63 pp.
| Bedrick
| January, 1998
|
TradeISBN 0-87226-552-8
(4)
4-6
History Sourcebook series.
This brief historical survey also serves as a fine example of how to use primary documentation. The excerpts from primary sources provide a wide range of viewpoints--though their placement in the text is somewhat distracting and busy. The acknowledgments provide titles of the excerpted works, but a bibliography would have been more useful. Historical photos and illustrations accompany the text. Glos., ind.