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This is a two volume treasure trove of the human and commercial drama of America from the colonial settlement to the mid-twentieth century. Design, maps, and illustrations of each period with much attention to clothing, languages, arts and crafts, slavery, labor unions, immigration, Native Americans, the railroads and commerce in each part of the expanding country. Name and address of previous owner inked inside front of each volume. Introductory material plus 573 pp in volume 1; Introductory plus 429 pp and 74 pages of notes, acknowledgements, bibliography and index. Illustrations are all black and white except the title pages in each volume.
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Life in America (2 vol. set)
by Marshall B Davidson
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Russia's Great Reforms,1855-1881
by Ben Eklof, John Bushnell, Larissa Zakharova, Eds.
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A set of scholary English language essays on Russia's 19th century reforms in finance, law, the military and technology, and government. Each essay includes endnotes. Part of the Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies. The volume shows some wear at the corners, and one tiny tear on the bottom edge.
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The Crisis of Industrial Society
by Norman Birnbaum
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An analysis of conflict and collaboration working together in the development of industrial society, primarily in 19th century Europe. It includes reference to Marx, Saint-Simon, Nietzsche,,Comte, Habermas, Popper, Galbraith, just to name a few of the economic and social philosophers and many others. Includes reference to the United States and ends with the statement that "life itself is beginning to express the freedom hitherto reserved for art." Includes a bibliography. A few pencil underlinings in chapter one, and my name written inside front cover.
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A Frenchman in America: (The Anglo-Saxon Race Revisited)
by Max O'Rell (Pseud. of Leon-Paul Blouet)
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A volume in Arrowsmith's Three-and-Sixpenny, series. A lighthearted and anecdotal diary of travel in the late 19th century U.S. Author's descriptions include cities, hotels, trains, Delmonico's, President Harrison, Cigar Store Indians, Porters, Users of the new telephones, cowboys with guns, etc. and numerous illustrated portraits. 336 pp plus three pages of advertisements for other Arrowsmith titles.
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Strike!
by Jeremy Brecher
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Text begins in 1877 with the B&O Railroad strike, and ends with the student strike of 1970, and a achapter on international left wing activity. The balance of the book is about the American labor movement, with blow by blow and hour by hour descriptions of the unfolding drama. Well worthwhile.
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Sawdust Empire: Washington and Oregon
by Howard M. Brier
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A readable history of the families and companies who logged the Pacific Northwest during the 19th and early 20th century.
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