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The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790-1830

Richard C. Wade - History - 1959 - 388 pages
When The Urban Frontier was first published it roused attention because it held that settlers made a concerted effort to bring established institutions and ways to their new ...
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Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922

Dominic A. Pacyga - History - 2003 - 332 pages
Chronicles the experiences of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods in Chicago to demonstrate how Poles created new communities in an attempt to preserve the ...
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Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World

Timothy R. Pauketat, Thomas E. Emerson - Social Science - 2000 - 378 pages
About one thousand years ago, Native Americans built hundreds of earthen platform mounds, plazas, residential areas, and other types of monuments in the vicinity of present-day ...
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Showdown at Little Big Horn

Dee Alexander Brown - Social Science - 2004 - 224 pages
The best-selling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee provides a critical account of the events leading up to the massacre of the 7th Calvary at the Little Big Horn as told ...
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Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920

Henry M. McKiven - Business & Economics - 1995 - 244 pages
Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920
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Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900

Paul D. Escott - History - 1988 - 372 pages
Many Excellent People examines the nature of North Carolina's social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, during the last half of the ...
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The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier

Susan E. Gray - History - 1996 - 252 pages
Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern ...
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