Search Results - "The Wire"

Wire dancing by Sykes, Patricia, 1941-

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The barbed-wire college reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II / by Robin, Ron Theodore

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Reporting from Washington the history of the Washington press corps / by Ritchie, Donald A., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The news bureaus and the New Deal -- Race, rules, and reporting -- Radio voices -- The friends of Joe McCarthy -- News center of the world -- Flash : the wire services -- The business of being opinionated -- Off the women's page -- The camera's eye -- Washington, deceit -- Company town papers -- Anyone with a modem -- Washington, D.C., 2001.…”
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Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain : Networks, Power, and Everyday Life / by Kekki, Saara, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Network Analysis and the Study of Japanese American History -- From Immigration to Incarceration: The Japanese in the United States, 1890-1942 -- Heart Mountain Community and Modeling the Networks -- Those Who Govern: Political Power -- Sense of Belonging -- Individuals of Power and Power Families -- Women of Heart Mountain -- Disobedience behind Barbed Wire: Passive and Active Resistance -- Onward: Routes to Freedom -- Epilogue: Networks of Power and the Power of Networks.…”
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Water and American government the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 / by Pisani, Donald J.

Table of Contents: “…Saving lost lives : irrigation and the ideology of homemaking -- The perils of public works : Federal reclamation, 1902-1909 -- Case studies in irrigation and community : Twin Falls and Rupert -- An administrative morass : Federal reclamation, 1909-1917 -- Boom, bust and boom : Federal reclamation, 1917-1935 -- Uneasy allies : the Reclamation Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Case studies in water and power : the Yakima and the Pima -- Wiring the new West : the strange career of public power -- Gateway to the hydraulic age : water politics, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion : retrospect and significance.…”
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