Author: Josiah T. Marshall
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: G. Bitting K. G. Bitting
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429045124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib.

Author: Josiah T. Marshall
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: James L. Huston
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807159190
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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JAMES L. HUSTON is professor of history at Oklahoma State University and the author of The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War; Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900; Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War ; and Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality.

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Author: Lisa Goff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The word “shantytown” conjures images of crowded slums in developing nations. Though their history is largely forgotten, shantytowns were a prominent feature of one developing nation in particular: the United States. Lisa Goff restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in America’s urban landscape, showing how the basic but resourcefully constructed dwellings of America’s working poor were not merely the byproducts of economic hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. In the nineteenth century, poor workers built shantytowns across America’s frontiers and its booming industrial cities. Settlements covered large swaths of urban property, including a twenty-block stretch of Manhattan, much of Brooklyn’s waterfront, and present-day Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. Names like Tinkersville and Hayti evoked the occupations and ethnicities of shantytown residents, who were most often European immigrants and African Americans. These inhabitants defended their civil rights and went to court to protect their property and resist eviction, claiming the benefits of middle-class citizenship without its bourgeois trappings. Over time, middle-class contempt for shantytowns increased. When veterans erected an encampment near the U.S. Capitol in the 1930s President Hoover ordered the army to destroy it, thus inspiring the Depression-era slang “Hoovervilles.” Twentieth-century reforms in urban zoning and public housing, introduced as progressive efforts to provide better dwellings, curtailed the growth of shantytowns. Yet their legacy is still felt in sites of political activism, from shanties on college campuses protesting South African apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: Freeman Hunt
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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