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  • Capital's Utopia

    Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916

    Series series Creating the North American Landscape
    In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that ... Leer más

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  • Geography, History, and the American Political Economy

    This collection takes on the call issued by reviewers of The American Way for a critical application of Carville Earle's framework to more geographical examples of political and economic shifts in America's past. The essays illustrate changes in U.S. settlement, development, and political structure through the lens of the restructuring of the American economy and society over approximately fifty ... Leer más

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  • The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies

    A comprehensive collection provides guidance and deep insight from a variety of experts in this emerging fieldThe rapidly developing field of interreligious studies fosters scholarship engaging two or more religious traditions at a time. Inherently multidisciplinary, the field brings the academic consideration of religions into conversation with the humanities and social sciences, employing ... Leer más

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    About the BookTo the children of Haleyville, Mrs. Piper-Smith is as close to Mrs. Claus as any human can be. A craftswoman of unmatched skill, people come from all over to adopt one of her beautiful and unique Christmas angel tree toppers year-round. When a special little girl named Emily Jones walks into her shop one winter day, the two form a special bond over the tiniest Christmas angel, Anna, ... Leer más

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    Urbanism and Its End

    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy St
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  • The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

    Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change

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  • The Tycoons

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    For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most ... Leer más

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  • The Study of Religion

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