Timeline for What was the third best-selling book in the antebellum US?
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| Aug 11, 2015 at 14:50 | answer | added | two sheds | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 14:50 | history | edited | two sheds | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 16:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/539816571615846401 | ||
| Nov 22, 2014 at 17:06 | comment | added | two sheds | @RazieMah: Good idea, I'll see what I can find on Cooper. But yeah, these statistics are elusive :( | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 0:01 | comment | added | Razie Mah | As far as American novelists in the mid 19th century, I think James Fenimore Cooper is likely. Last of the Mohicans series. But I can't find book sales info on ANY book I want to look up. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 22:24 | comment | added | LateralFractal | @MarkC.Wallace Done. Meta question created. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 18:19 | answer | added | Tyler Durden | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 17:42 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | Vaguely on topic, but questions like this veer close to trivia. You need to justify the historical importance. There seems to be an element of idle curiosity here, not a real historical salience. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 14:49 | comment | added | MCW♦ | I respectfully suggest we move the "on topic/off topic" discussion to meta; I think there is an interesting discussion about what the boundaries of H:SE should be, but I think if it is discussed here, we'll lose track of the discussion and be forced to repeat it. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 14:01 | comment | added | LateralFractal | @jwenting This question can be scoped under Cultural History. As for "numbers" based history - this differs little from asking about the third largest army of Peloponnesian War; or the amount of coin on the third Spanish Treasure Fleet; or the amount of grain exported during the third month of the holodomor. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 13:20 | comment | added | Rajib | Voted to reopen. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 13:19 | history | reopened |
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| Nov 17, 2014 at 13:11 | history | edited | Semaphore |
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| Nov 17, 2014 at 12:52 | comment | added | two sheds | @jwenting: Thank you for your explanation. Economic history is on topic, as is social and cultural history (which I think better describes the case). But either way, closing this and telling me to go engage in primary archival research seems like it undermines the point of an exchange like this. If we all had to exhaust the archives before posting, then it would never be legitimate to ask a question. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 12:33 | comment | added | jwenting | it's off topic because it's got nothing to do with history, it's economy at best. Search through sales records of publishing companies if you wish and count them all up. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 12:16 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2014 at 10:52 | comment | added | Semaphore | I have no idea why this is considered off topic, especially at a time when even broad source requests or blatantly anthropological/archaeological questions are being accepted. Voting to reopen. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 10:09 | comment | added | LateralFractal | This may take two votes to reopen or five. Typically closing requires five votes, but members of the original private beta stage allow for closure at a lower vote count. Don't worry, I see the chances of reopening at about 60/40. You might want to add the question to the body as often the title is considered redundant to the post. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 4:33 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Nov 17, 2014 at 4:08 | comment | added | LateralFractal | I don't believe this is off-topic. Afterall you will only find this information in historical sources. And which book is popular could also provide some interesting period-specific insights. Voting to reopen. | |
| Nov 17, 2014 at 3:15 | history | closed |
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| Nov 16, 2014 at 14:06 | comment | added | two sheds | @jwenting: Why? It has a single correct answer. It's not a request for a source. And intellectual history isn't trivial. | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 12:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 16, 2014 at 12:30 | comment | added | jwenting | this is so obviously off topic... | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 7:16 | history | asked | two sheds | CC BY-SA 3.0 |