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Les États-Unis d'Amérique en 1863; leur histoire politique, leurs ressources minéralogiques, agricoles, industrilles et commerciales, et la part pour laquelle ils ont contributé à la richesse et à la civilsation du monde entier, par John Bigelow.

Bigelow, John, 1817-1911.

TITLE TRANSLATED
The United States of America in 1863

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Paris, L. Hachette et cie, 1863.

SUMMARY
While United States consul to France (1861-1864), Bigelow wrote États-Unis d'Amérique en 1863 in order to counteract the apparent desire of the French people for a dissolution of the American Union, by showing them the relative importance of the commerce of the northern and southern states.

SUBJECTS
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

MEDIUM
3 p. l., [iii]-xxiv, 551 p. fold. tab. 22 cm.

CALL NUMBER
E167 .B59

DIGITAL ID
gcfr 0044 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gcfr.0044

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(France in America: Selections from the LC General Collection Description)

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