The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
by Cohen, Patricia Cline
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Private library sticker residue at spine base. Book top edge has soil spot or small spill.
- ISBN 10
- 0679412913
- ISBN 13
- 9780679412915
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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Synopsis
Patricia Cline Cohen is Professor of History and Acting Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1991 to 1996 she chaired the Women's Studies Program there. She is the author of A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (1985) and of numerous articles and reviews, and a coauthor of The American Promise (1997). From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.19010000827
- Title
- The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
- Author
- Cohen, Patricia Cline
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Private library sticker residue at spine base. Book top edge has soil spot or small spill.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679412913
- ISBN 13
- 9780679412915
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- True Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
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