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Preserving the garden :
(1981)
The first Americans in Oregon came mostly from the Midwest where their ancestors had settled after leaving New England. Oregon represented a place where people could live surrounded by a pleasant setting which was protected ...
Order against chaos :
(1984)
This study focused on one aspect of the rise of monopoly corporate capitalism, the labor ideology of employers. Between 1880 and 1910, a period when American social thought was consciously reformulated, a prominent capitalist ...
Sand Creek : tragedy and symbol /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)
Ultimately, the study uses the Sand Creek Massacre to identify the common denominators of massacre broadly conceived and to probe why such events occur. Placing Sand Creek within the context of similar events throughout ...
L.M. Gensman :
(1980)
A study of Gensman's activities indicates that Gensman did not differ greatly from most Western attorneys in the type of law practiced, in the degree of political involvement, or in the pursuit of outside enterprises to ...
Culture, conflict and coexistence : American-Soviet cultural relations, 1917-1958.
(1980)
Beneath the strained official relationship between Washington and Moscow, American and Soviet cultural representatives have maintained a long standing cultural intercourse. Only at the depths of the cold war did contacts ...
Life and labor in the Isle of Dogs :
(1984)
This work is a case study of the origins and evolution of a specific type of urban community known as working-class villages. Such communities are characterized by deprived environments, predominantly proletarian populations, ...
Oklahoma Populism :
(1984)
Sectionalism has been an important factor in Oklahoma politics since 1890. Pearsonian correlations between voting and birthplace data, however, show that a rural-urban cleavage rivaled that of sectionalism during the ...
Prologue to imperialism :
(1980)
A subsidiary theme in this work concerns the relationship of the Geographical Society of Paris with the expansionists. The Society became a kind of clearinghouse for various views and publications, and it furnished a ...
Taylorism in France, 1904-1920 :
(1984)
The introduction of Taylorism in France did not represent a complete break in French factory relations. Indeed, efforts by nineteenth-century employers to discipline their employers indicates greater continuity with Taylor's ...
Passionate rebel :
(1983)
The first woman to lecture to women on physiology and anatomy, Mary Gove Nichols told women in 1838 to take control over their own health and advocated the Graham System which emphasized proper diet, exercise, and preventive ...