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The Farmer's Age

Agriculture, 1815-60

By: Paul W. Gates

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The Farmer's Age

Agriculture, 1815-60

By: Paul W. Gates

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume examines the aspects and problems of land policies and the growth in farming during the mid-1800s.

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Routledge

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1315496631

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Land and Law in California

Essays on Land Policies

By: Paul Gates

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Land and Law in California

Essays on Land Policies

By: Paul Gates

Land and Law in California present essays by Paul W. Gates, a foremost authority on American public lands history.

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Purdue University Press

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1557532737

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9781557532732

Handbook of Compound Semiconductors

Growth, Processing, Characterization, and Devices

By: Paul H. Holloway,Gary E. McGuire

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Handbook of Compound Semiconductors

Growth, Processing, Characterization, and Devices

By: Paul H. Holloway,Gary E. McGuire

This book reviews the recent advances and current technologies used to produce microelectronic and optoelectronic devices from compound semiconductors. It provides a complete overview of the technologies necessary to grow bulk single-crystal substrates, grow hetero-or homoepitaxial films, and process advanced devices such as HBT's, QW diode lasers, etc.

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Cambridge University Press

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0080946143

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Building an American Empire

The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion

By: Paul Frymer

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Building an American Empire

The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion

By: Paul Frymer

How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how the government's regulation of population movements on the frontier, both settlement and removal, advanced national aspirations for empire and promoted the formation of a white settler nation. Building an American Empire details how a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the movement of populations. At times, the government mobilized populations for compact settlement in strategically important areas of the frontier; at other times, policies were designed to actively restrain settler populations in order to prevent violence, international conflict, and breakaway states. Paul Frymer examines how these settlement patterns helped construct a dominant racial vision for America by incentivizing and directing the movement of white European settlers onto indigenous and diversely populated lands. These efforts were hardly seamless, and Frymer pays close attention to the failures as well, from the lack of further expansion into Latin America to the defeat of the black colonization movement. Building an American Empire reveals the lasting and profound significance government settlement policies had for the nation, both for establishing America as dominantly white and for restricting broader aspirations for empire in lands that could not be so racially engineered.

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Princeton University Press

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0691191565

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9780691191560

Crude Politics

The California Oil Market, 1900-1940

By: Paul Sabin

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Crude Politics

The California Oil Market, 1900-1940

By: Paul Sabin

Paul Sabin offers a study of the oil market in California before World War II, showing how the development of an economy & society very heavily dependent upon oil production & consumption was largely directed by policy decisions regarding property rights, regulatory law & public investment.

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330

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Univ of California Press

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0520241983

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9780520241985

Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783–1860

By: Paul C. Henlein

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Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783–1860

By: Paul C. Henlein

The great beef-cattle industry of the American West was not born full grown beyond the Mississippi. It had its antecedents in the upper South, the Midwest, and the Ohio Valley, where many Texas cattlemen learned their trade. In this book Mr. Henlein tells the story of the cattle kingdom of the Ohio Valley—a kingdom which encompassed the Bluegrass region in Kentucky and the valleys of the Scioto, Miami, Wabash, and Sangamon in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The book begins with the settlement of the Ohio Valley, by emigration from the South and East, in the latter part of the eighteenth century; it ends with the westward movement of the cattlemen, this time to Missouri and the plains, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Mr. Henlein describes the intricate pattern of agricultural activities which grew into a successful system of producing and marketing cattle; the energetic upbreeding and extensive importations which created the great blooded herds of the Ohio Valley; and the relations of the cattlemen with the major cattle markets. An interesting part of this story is the chapter which tells how the cattlemen of the Ohio Valley, between 1805 and 1855, drove their fat cattle over the mountains to the eastern markets, and how these long drives, like the more famous Texas drives of a later day, disappeared with the advent of the railroads. This well-documented study is an important contribution to the history of American agriculture.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081316303X

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9780813163031

Fathers and Children

Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian

By: Michael Paul Rogin

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Fathers and Children

Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian

By: Michael Paul Rogin

Rogin shows us a Jackson who saw the Indians as a menace to the new nation and its citizens. This volatile synthesis of liberal egalitarianism and an assault on the American Indians is the source of continuing interest in the sobering and important book.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412823471

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9781412823470

Troubled Waters

Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821--1860

By: Paul F. Paskoff

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Troubled Waters

Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821--1860

By: Paul F. Paskoff

In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. This daunting array of river hazards required a similarly broad range of efforts to remove or at least ameliorate them. Against a variety of obstacles -- natural, political, and technological -- the river improvements program succeeded in reducing the rate of steamboat loss, even as steamboat traffic dramatically increased. Its success, Paskoff argues, demonstrates that the federal government was far more active than generally thought in promoting economic growth and development in the years leading up to the Civil War.The river improvements program was one of the most volatile issues in national, sectional, and state politics, touching on questions of economic development, constitutional law, partisan politics, and sectional rivalry. Paskoff examines the controversial program from its beginnings during the early republic to 1844, giving careful attention to the policies of Andrew Jackson's administration. He explores the array of objections to the program -- some grounded in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and others in a concern over alleged federal wantonness, corruption, and waste -- and follows the political story through the administration of James K. Polk forward to secession. Paskoff also explains the fiscal, economic, and technological aspects of the hazard problem and its solution, analyzing the federal government's fiscal condition, its capacity to undertake such an ambitious program, and the influence of conditions in the larger economy, including effects of the Mexican War, upon the federal government's finances.Paskoff's lively analysis rests on a bedrock of impressive quantitative evidence, including databases containing every documented steamboat wreck -- more than 1,200 -- on American rivers, lakes, and coastal waters; construction and engine data for more than 600 steamboat packets; and all relevant federal appropriations and expenditures measures, more than 2,300 spending projects in all. Vigorously researched and vividly told, Troubled Waters is an essential contribution to the history of internal improvements in the antebellum United States.

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LSU Press

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0807132683

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9780807132685

A Conspiracy of Optimism

Management of the National Forests Since World War Two

By: Paul W. Hirt

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A Conspiracy of Optimism

Management of the National Forests Since World War Two

By: Paul W. Hirt

A Conspiracy of Optimism explains the controversy now raging over the U.S. Forest Service’s management of America’s national forests. Confronted with the dual mandate of production and preservation, the U.S. Forest Service decided it could achieve both goals through more intensive management. For a few decades after World War Two, this “conspiracy of optimism” masked the fact that high levels of resource extraction were destroying forest ecosystems. The effects of intensive management—massive clear-cuts, polluted streams, declining wildlife populations, and marred scenery—initiated several decades of environmental conflict that continues to the present. Hirt documents the roots of this conflict and illuminates recent changes in administration and policy that suggest a hopeful future for federal lands.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080327288X

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume V

War, a New Era, and Depression, 1914-1940

By: Paul W. Glad

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume V

War, a New Era, and Depression, 1914-1940

By: Paul W. Glad

The fifth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the years from the outbreak of World War I to the eve of American entry into World War II. In between, the rise of the woman's movement, the advent of universal suffrage, and the "great experiment" of Prohibition are explored, along with the contest between newly emergent labor unions and powerful business and industrial corporations. Author Paul W. Glad also investigates the Great Depression in Wisconsin and its impact on rural and urban families in the state. Photographs and maps further illustrate this volume which tells the story of one of the most exciting and stressful eras in the history of the state.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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087020632X

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The Great Father

The United States Government and the American Indians

By: Francis Paul Prucha

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The Great Father

The United States Government and the American Indians

By: Francis Paul Prucha

This is Francis Paul Prucha's magnum opus. It is a great work. . . . This study will . . . [be] a standard by which other studies of American Indian affairs will be judged. American Indian history needed this book, has long awaited it, and rejoices at its publication."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal. "The author's detailed analysis of two centuries of federal policy makes The Great Father indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of American Indian policy."-Journal of American History. "Written in an engaging fashion, encompassing an extraordinary range of material, devoting attention to themes as well as to chronological narration, and presenting a wealth of bibliographical information, it is an essential text for all students and scholars of American Indian history and anthropology."-Oregon Historical Quarterly."A monumental endeavor, rigorously researched and carefully written. . . . It will remain for decades as an indispensable reference tool and a compendium of knowledge pertaining to United States-Indian relations."-Western Historical Quarterly. "Perhaps the crowning achievement of Prucha's scholarly career."-Vine Deloria Jr., America."For many years to come, The Great Father will be the point of departure for all those embarking on research projects in the history of government Indian policy."-William T. Hagan, New Mexico Historical Review. "The appearance of this massive history of federal Indian policy is a triumph of historical research and scholarly publication."-Lawrence C. Kelly, Montana. "This is the most important history ever published about the formulation of federal Indian policies in the United States."-Herbert T. Hoover, Minnesota History. "This truly is the definitive work on the subject."-Ronald Rayman, Library Journal.The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure of the two-volume edition, eliminating only the footnotes and some of the detail. It is a comprehensive history of the relations between the U.S. government and the Indians. Covering the two centuries from the Revolutionary War to 1980, the book traces the development of American Indian policy and the growth of the bureaucracy created to implement that policy.Francis Paul Prucha, S.J., a leading authority on American Indian policy and the author of more than a dozen other books, is an emeritus professor of history at Marquette University.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803287348

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Making Space on the Western Frontier

Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes

By: W. Paul Reeve

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Making Space on the Western Frontier

Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes

By: W. Paul Reeve

Until recently, most scholarly work on Chinese music in both Chinese and Western languages has focused on genres, musical structure, and general history and concepts, rather than on the musicians themselves. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on individual musicians active in different amateur and professional music scenes in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Chinese communities in Europe. Using biography to deepen understanding of Chinese music, contributors present contextualized portraits of rural folk singers, urban opera singers, literati, and musicians on both geographic and cultural frontiers. Contributors are Nimrod Baranovitch, Rachel Harris, Frank Kouwenhoven, Tong Soon Lee, Peter Micic, Helen Rees, Antoinet Schimmelpenninck, Shao Binsun, Jonathan P. J. Stock, and Bell Yung.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252092260

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9780252092268

The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal

The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism

By: Paul D. Moreno

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The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal

The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism

By: Paul D. Moreno

The story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107032954

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9781107032958

Wild Yankees

The Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier

By: Paul B. Moyer

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Wild Yankees

The Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier

By: Paul B. Moyer

In Wild Yankees, Paul B. Moyer argues that a struggle for personal independence waged by thousands of ordinary settlers lay at the root of conflict in northeast Pennsylvania and across the revolutionary-era frontier. The concept and pursuit of independence was not limited to actual war or high politics; it also resonated with ordinary people, such as the Wild Yankees, who pursued their own struggles for autonomy. With vivid descriptions of the various levels of this conflict, Moyer shows that the Wyoming controversy illuminates the process of settlement, the daily lives of settlers, and agrarian unrest along the early American frontier."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cornell University Press

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0801444942

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Norman B. Ream

Forgotten Master of Markets

By: Paul Ryscavage

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Norman B. Ream

Forgotten Master of Markets

By: Paul Ryscavage

Norman Bruce Ream was born in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1844, the son of a farmer. He exhibited a commercial sense, but the Civil War interrupted his ambitions. Wounded twice, he returned home a hero. After some unsuccessful business ventures out west, he went to Chicago in 1871 and became a commission merchant in the Union Stockyards. A few years later, he moved uptown and traded grains and provisions in the pits of the Board of Trade. Money poured in. Indeed, by 1886 he was a millionaire (also married and the father of several children). He started investing in real estate, urban transit companies, railroad stock--and began consolidating and financing enterprises. At century's end, he was traveling to New York City, impressing financiers like J. Pierpont Morgan. Indeed, he helped Morgan put together the U.S. Steel Corporation and the International Harvester Company, served on many boards, and even advised Morgan during the panic of 1907. But life grew turbulent. Public sentiment soured towards Wall Street and the wealthy. This, along with the presumed indiscretions of some of his children, kept his name in the press. He died in 1915, and gradually, his life was forgotten.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611475856

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The Oxford Companion to United States History

By: Paul S. Boyer,Melvyn Dubofsky

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The Oxford Companion to United States History

By: Paul S. Boyer,Melvyn Dubofsky

In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion.

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0195082095

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The Farmer's Age

The Farmer's Age

Land and Law in California

Land and Law in California

Handbook of Compound Semiconductors

Handbook of Compound Semiconductors

Building an American Empire

Building an American Empire

Crude Politics

Crude Politics

Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783–1860

Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783–1860

Fathers and Children

Fathers and Children

Troubled Waters

Troubled Waters

A Conspiracy of Optimism

A Conspiracy of Optimism

The History of Wisconsin, Volume V

The History of Wisconsin, Volume V

The Great Father

The Great Father

Making Space on the Western Frontier

Making Space on the Western Frontier

The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal

The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal

Wild Yankees

Wild Yankees

Norman B. Ream

Norman B. Ream

The Oxford Companion to United States History

The Oxford Companion to United States History

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