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Book Annual Report of the Directory

Download or read book Annual Report of the Directory written by United States. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Insurance Commissioner for the Year Ending December 31

Download or read book Annual Report of the Insurance Commissioner for the Year Ending December 31 written by Oregon. Insurance Department and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Business Directories

Download or read book American Business Directories written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Business Directories

Download or read book American Business Directories written by Marjorie Veith Davis and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the American Historical Association

Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Statistical Reference Index

Download or read book Statistical Reference Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community Leadership

Download or read book Community Leadership written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documenting Racism

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Emmett Winn
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-02-16
  • ISBN : 1441172939
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Documenting Racism written by J. Emmett Winn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the silent era through the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was the preeminent government filmmaking organization. In the United States, USDA films were shown in movie theaters, public and private schools at all educational levels, churches, libraries and even in open fields. For many Americans in the early 1900s, the USDA films were the first motion pictures they watched. And yet USDA documentaries have received little serious scholarly attention. The lack of serious study is especially concerning since the films chronicle over half a century of American farm life and agricultural work and, in so doing, also chronicle the social, cultural, and political changes in the United States at a crucial time in its development into a global superpower. Focusing specifically on four key films, Winn explicates the representation of African Americans in these films within the socio-political context of their times. The book provides a clearer understanding of how politics and filmmaking converged to promote a governmentally sanctioned view of racism in the U.S. in the early 20th century.

Book The Glass City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara L Floyd
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2014-10-30
  • ISBN : 0472120646
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Glass City written by Barbara L Floyd and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headline, “Where Glass is King,” emblazoned Toledo newspapers in early 1888, before factories in the Ohio city had even produced their first piece of glass. After years of struggling to find an industrial base, Toledo had attracted Edward Drummond Libbey and his struggling New England Glass Company to the shores of the Maumee River, and many felt Toledo’s potential as “The Future Great City of the World” would at last be realized. The move was successful—though not on the level some boosters envisioned—and since 1888, Toledo glass factories have employed thousands of workers who created the city’s middle class and developed technical innovations that impacted the glass industry worldwide. But as has occurred in other cities dominated by single industries—from Detroit to Pittsburgh to Youngstown—changes to the industry it built have had a devastating impact on Toledo. Today, 45 percent of all glass is manufactured in China. Well-researched yet accessible, this new book explores how the economic, cultural, and social development of the Glass City intertwined with its namesake industry and examines Toledo’s efforts to reinvent itself amidst the Midwest’s declining manufacturing sector.

Book Accessions List of the Library of Congress Office  Nairobi  Kenya

Download or read book Accessions List of the Library of Congress Office Nairobi Kenya written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Smoke

Download or read book The Age of Smoke written by Frank Uekötter and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr Valley in Germany and western Pennsylvania in the United States, witnessed exponential growth-yet also suffered the greatest damage from coal pollution. These conditions prompted civic activism in the form of "anti-smoke" campaigns to attack the unsightly physical manifestations of coal burning. This early period witnessed significant cooperation between industrialists, government, and citizens to combat the smoke problem. It was not until the 1960s, when attention shifted from dust and grime to hazardous invisible gases, that cooperation dissipated, and protests took an antagonistic turn.The Age of Smoke presents an original, comparative history of environmental policy and protest in the United States and Germany. Dividing this history into distinct eras (1880 to World War I, interwar, post-World War II to 1970), Frank Uekoetter compares and contrasts the influence of political, class, and social structures, scientific communities, engineers, industrial lobbies, and environmental groups in each nation. He concludes with a discussion of the environmental revolution, arguing that there were indeed two environmental revolutions in both countries: one societal, where changing values gave urgency to air pollution control, the other institutional, where changes in policies tried to catch up with shifting sentiments.Focusing on a critical period in environmental history, The Age of Smoke provides a valuable study of policy development in two modern industrial nations, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution. As Uekoetter's work reveals, the cooperative approaches developed in an earlier era offer valuable lessons and perhaps the best hope for future progress.

Book  Everybody was Black Down There

Download or read book Everybody was Black Down There written by Robert H. Woodrum and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930 almost 13,000 African Americans worked in the coal mines around Birmingham, Alabama. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union's local membership. At the close of the twentieth century, only about 15 percent of Birmingham's miners were black, and the entire mining workforce had been sharply reduced. Robert H. Woodrum offers a challenging interpretation of why this dramatic decline occurred and why it happened during an era of strong union presence in the Alabama coalfields. Drawing on union, company, and government records as well as interviews with coal miners, Woodrum examines the complex connections between racial ideology and technological and economic change. Extending the chronological scope of previous studies of race, work, and unionization in the Birmingham coalfields, Woodrum covers the New Deal, World War II, the postwar era, the 1970s expansion of coalfield employment, and contemporary trends toward globalization. The United Mine Workers of America's efforts to bridge the color line in places like Birmingham should not be underestimated, says Woodrum. Facing pressure from the wider world of segregationist Alabama, however, union leadership ultimately backed off the UMWA's historic commitment to the rights of its black members. Woodrum discusses the role of state UMWA president William Mitch in this process and describes Birmingham's unique economic circumstances as an essentially Rust Belt city within the burgeoning Sun Belt South. This is a nuanced exploration of how, despite their central role in bringing the UMWA back to Alabama in the early 1930s, black miners remained vulnerable to the economic and technological changes that transformed the coal industry after World War II.

Book News Notes of California Libraries

Download or read book News Notes of California Libraries written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.

Book Annual Report

Download or read book Annual Report written by Philadelphia Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resources in Education

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Alabama

Download or read book A Bibliography of Alabama written by Thomas McAdory Owen and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: