Democracy in the age of capital: Contesting suffrage rights in gilded age New York

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 146-174

  Beckert, Sven ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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