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From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban...
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end of nothing : history lurches on -- America under attack. …"A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities offers a social, political …, and cultural history of the United States since World War II. Unpacking a period of profound transformation unprecedented …
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"The year George Washington was finishing his first term as president, 1792, William Larned was beginning his first term as overseer of the poor for Providence, Rhode Island. Larned would be re-elected for another thirty-five one-year terms and arguably exercised more authority over locals than...
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-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences …
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pension plans. The authors use the history of how early public pension plans were established, how they matured and how they … history of the development of public sector pension plans in the United States during the twentieth century expands upon …
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viewpoints that arose as the country struggled to recover from the worst economic downturn in its history. …
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Not So Wild, Wild West casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions … greater stake in the outcome. This theory is brought to life in the colorful history of Indians, fur trappers, buffalo hunters …
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