Search Results - "District"

For Business and Pleasure Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 / by Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: It's a wonderful life: red-light districts and anti-vice reform -- Segregating vice, 1890-1909 -- The sporting world, 1890-1917 -- Race, riots, and red-light districts, 1906-1910 -- The vice trust: a reinterpretation of the white slavery scare, 1907-1917 -- The war on vice, 1910-1919 -- The syndicate: prohibition and the rise of organized crime, 1919-1933 -- Conclusion: progressivism, prohibition, and policy options.…”
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Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy by Engstrom, Erik J.

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From the Ground Up A History of Mining in Utah /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Park City / Hal Compton and David Hampshire -- Tintic Mining District / Philip F. Notarianni -- San Francisco Mining District / Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans -- Uinta Basin / John Barton.…”
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Junius And Joseph Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet / by Wicks, Robert Sigfrid, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…New World Eden : the promise of America in late Jacksonian politics -- "Clear the way for Henry Clay" -- "To save the district for the Whigs" -- "Nauvoo is no place for rational people" -- The third party -- "Missourians seem determined not to let us alone" -- The candidate -- Thy kingdom come-- in Texas -- Two conventions -- What will be the end of things? …”
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Self-Publishing and Collection Development Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries /

Table of Contents: “…Holley, Wayne State University -- E-book self-publishing and the Los Gatos Library: a case study / Henry Bankhead, Los Gatos Library -- Supporting self-publishing and local authors: from challenge to opportunity / Melissa DeWild and Morgan Jarema, Kent District Library -- Do large academic libraries purchase self-published books to add to their collections? …”
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