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Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

By: James C. Olson

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Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

By: James C. Olson

From the mid-1860s until the end of organized resistance on the Great Plains, Red Cloud, the noted Oglala Sioux, epitomized for many the Indian problem. Centered on Red Cloud?s career, this is an admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study of the relations between the Sioux and the United States government during the years after the Civil War.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803258178

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9780803258174

Carroll Wright and Labor Reform

The Origin of Labor Statistics

By: James Leiby

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Carroll Wright and Labor Reform

The Origin of Labor Statistics

By: James Leiby

Contemporaries of Carroll D. Wright (1840-1909) lived through the transformation of American society by the industrial revolution. For the most part they thought the transformation represented growth and progress, but many also found occasion for doubt and fear in its consequences. Their anxieties collected around the notions of a "labor problem" and "labor reform." Whether from hope or fear, people felt a need for statistical information. On this popular demand Wright built his career as statistical expert and renowned master of "labor statistics." His investigations during thirty-two years of government service (1873-1905) gave form to contemporary ideas and set precedents for modern procedures, as in his seminal studies of wages, prices, and strikes. In telling how Wright took up this unprecedented career, Mr. Leiby shows the importance of Wright's early years and relates his work to the politics and religion of his time as well as to its social science. In this perspective, the history of the labor bureaus and their voluminous reports take on their original human purposes and meaning.

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264

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Harvard University Press

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0674098005

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9780674098008

The Control Revolution

Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

By: James Beniger

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The Control Revolution

Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

By: James Beniger

Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy? And why is this change recent--or is it? James Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. In the United States, applications of steam power in the early 1800s brought a dramatic rise in the speed, volume, and complexity of industrial processes, making them difficult to control. Scores of problems arose: fatal train wrecks, misplacement of freight cars for months at a time, loss of shipments, inability to maintain high rates of inventory turnover. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information: the Control Revolution. Between the 1840s and the 1920s came most of the important information-processing and communication technologies still in use today: telegraphy, modern bureaucracy. rotary power printing, the postage stamp, paper money, typewriter, telephone, punch-card processing, motion pictures, radio, and television. Beniger shows that more recent developments in microprocessors, computers, and telecommunications are only a smooth continuation of this Control Revolution. Along the way he touches on many fascinating topics: why breakfast was invented, how trademarks came to be worth more than the companies that own them, why some employees wear uniforms, and whether time zones will always be necessary. The book is impressive not only for the breadth of its scholarship but also for the subtlety and force of its argument. It will be welcomed by sociologists, economists, historians of science and technology, and all curious in general.

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512

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Harvard University Press

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0674020766

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9780674020764

Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars. Edited from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney Baroness Von Olnhausen

By: James Phinney Munroe

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Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars. Edited from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney Baroness Von Olnhausen

By: James Phinney Munroe

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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368

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Milward Press

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1409782689

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9781409782681

Book's by James Phinney Munroe

Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

Carroll Wright and Labor Reform

Carroll Wright and Labor Reform

The Control Revolution

The Control Revolution

Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars. Edited from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney Baroness Von Olnhausen

Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars. Edited from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney Baroness Von Olnhausen

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