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Category : Marine diesel motors
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Pages : 2216

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Author: Maureen A. Flanagan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691215960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women articulated an alternative City of Homes in which the welfare of residents would be the municipal government's principal purpose. Seeing With Their Hearts traces the formation of this vision from the relief efforts following the Chicago fire of 1871 through the many political battles of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In the process, it presses a new understanding of the roles of women in public life and writes a new history of urban America. Heeding the call of activist Louise de Koven Bowen to become third-class passengers on the train of life, thousands of women "put their shoulders to the wheel and their whole hearts into the work" of fighting for better education, worker protections, clean air and water, building safety, health care, and women's suffrage. Though several well-known activists appeared frequently in these initiatives, Maureen Flanagan offers compelling evidence that women established a broad and durable solidarity that spanned differences of race, class, and political experience. She also shows that these women--emphasizing their common identity as women seeking a city amenable to the needs of women, children, families, and homes--pursued a vision and goals distinct from the reform agenda of Progressive male activists. They fought hard and sometimes successfully in a variety of public places and sites of power, winning victories from increased political clout and prenatal care to municipal garbage collection and pasteurized milk. While telling the fascinating and in some cases previously untold stories of women activists during Chicago's formative period, this book fundamentally recasts urban social and political history.

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Category : Swedish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: James Tynion IV
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
ISBN: 9781684153923
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Midwestern high school is transported into the middle of an Alien forest. This is the story of what happens next. It’s been over one year since the students, teacher, and additional staff of Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin were suddenly transported countless light years away to the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. Despite the chaos of their first year, the students have begun to build a life in this new world, a burgeoning society out of the ruins of their past. But mysterious forces are conspiring to bring it all crashing down... Written by James Tynion IV (Detective Comics, Memetic) and illustrated by Michael Dialynas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles),The Woods Yearbook Edition Book Two collects issues #13-24 of the critically-acclaimed series Scott Snyder (Batman) calls a “dark, epic read.”

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Languages : en
Pages : 1380

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Author: Giles Chapman
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Chapman takes readers on a fascinating global journey of bumper-to-bumper facts and other miscellanea, from the brake horsepower of the 10 most powerful cars available to the funniest bumper stickers spotted on cars in America.