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Amasa Stone and The Ashtabula Bridge Disaster

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"This book is not a biography of Amasa Stone. It is what historians have categorized as microhistory. Rather than being a full orbed history of Amasa Stone's life, this book is attempt, in historian Jill Lapore's words, to trace the elusive subject, Amasa Stone, through "slender records" and "address a small mystery," in this case the collapse of a bridge and the fairness or unfairness of labeling Stone as a "murderer" which many people did"--

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781609471842
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 388
  • Udgivet:
  • 7. november 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x20x229 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 517 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 11. december 2024
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"This book is not a biography of Amasa Stone. It is what historians have categorized as microhistory. Rather than being a full orbed history of Amasa Stone's life, this book is attempt, in historian Jill Lapore's words, to trace the elusive subject, Amasa Stone, through "slender records" and "address a small mystery," in this case the collapse of a bridge and the fairness or unfairness of labeling Stone as a "murderer" which many people did"--

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