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Immigration and the political economy of home West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 / by Buff, Rachel, 1961-

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How New York became American, 1890-1924 by Blake, Angela M.

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The suburbanization of New York is the world's greatest city becoming just another town? /

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A remarkable curiosity dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West / by Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902

Subjects: “…Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902 Travel West (U.S.)…”
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Wives without husbands marriage, desertion, & welfare in New York, 1900-1935 / by Igra, Anna R.

Table of Contents: “…They need not become a burden to the state -- The creation of an antidesertion system in New York -- Ambivalent breadwinners and the public purse -- Bread givers : from desertion to the national desertion bureau -- Desertion and the courts -- Deserted women and social welfare policy -- Epilogue: The legacy of antidesertion reform.…”
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Living the revolution Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / by Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy -- La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant -- The racialization of Southern Italian women -- Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance -- Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture -- The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism -- Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance -- Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.…”
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Mr. New York : Lew Rudin and his love for the city / by Lachman, Seymour

Table of Contents: “…Take care of our city -- Family roots -- Entree to politics and policy -- Birth of the association for a better New York -- New York's film and television industry comes of age in New York City -- Advent of the fiscal crisis -- Pre-payment of property taxes, and the road back to prosperity -- New York City marathon -- International tennis becomes synonymous with New York -- Protecting local and state tax deductions -- Living landmark.…”
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The Brooklyn Cyclones hardball dreams and the new Coney Island / by Osborne, Ben, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue, June 2nd, 2001 -- Opening day -- The first few Brooklyn "home stands" -- Kay and the Cyclones become celebrities -- Coney Island's team begins its own rivalry, the "Ferry Series" -- Kay and the Cyclones take the New York-Penn League by storm -- Brett Kay moves to the big city, Anthony stays in Coney Island -- The last home game of the regular season -- The postseason -- Epilogue, March 15, 2003.…”
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Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century / by Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Defining a housing crisis; Three programs are better than one; High-rise public housing begins; Model tenants for model housing; Tightly managed communities -- Transforming postwar New York. The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge -- Welfare-state public housing. …”
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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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Giving It All Away The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle / by Leary, Margaret A.

Table of Contents: “…The 1931 lawsuit -- 1858-82 : Hillsdale childhood, student days in Ann Arbor -- 1882-98 : the ambitious young New York lawyer, the brilliant writer on corporate law, the wooer and husband of Ida Olmstead, the indispensable employee of John Mackay -- 1898-1910 : divorcing Ida, thriving at the Mackay companies, losing a boss and mentor, becoming a man of property, establishing enduring friendships, making philanthropic plans for the University of Michigan -- 1910-19 : rapport with President Hutchins, less rapport with Dean Bates, meeting Myrtle White, making Michigan commitments, honoring a revered mother, moving into an elegant Manhattan town house, a possible case of heartbreak, continuing a distinguished legal career -- John T. …”
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Giving It All Away : The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle / by Leary, Margaret A.

Table of Contents: “…The 1931 lawsuit -- 1858-82 : Hillsdale childhood, student days in Ann Arbor -- 1882-98 : the ambitious young New York lawyer, the brilliant writer on corporate law, the wooer and husband of Ida Olmstead, the indispensable employee of John Mackay -- 1898-1910 : divorcing Ida, thriving at the Mackay companies, losing a boss and mentor, becoming a man of property, establishing enduring friendships, making philanthropic plans for the University of Michigan -- 1910-19 : rapport with President Hutchins, less rapport with Dean Bates, meeting Myrtle White, making Michigan commitments, honoring a revered mother, moving into an elegant Manhattan town house, a possible case of heartbreak, continuing a distinguished legal career -- John T. …”
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Giving It All Away : The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle / by Leary, Margaret A.

Table of Contents: “…The 1931 lawsuit -- 1858-82 : Hillsdale childhood, student days in Ann Arbor -- 1882-98 : the ambitious young New York lawyer, the brilliant writer on corporate law, the wooer and husband of Ida Olmstead, the indispensable employee of John Mackay -- 1898-1910 : divorcing Ida, thriving at the Mackay companies, losing a boss and mentor, becoming a man of property, establishing enduring friendships, making philanthropic plans for the University of Michigan -- 1910-19 : rapport with President Hutchins, less rapport with Dean Bates, meeting Myrtle White, making Michigan commitments, honoring a revered mother, moving into an elegant Manhattan town house, a possible case of heartbreak, continuing a distinguished legal career -- John T. …”
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Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 : Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture by Soyer, Daniel

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Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 : Jewish Landsmanshaftn in American Culture by Soyer, Daniel

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Mobilizing the Metropolis : How the Port Authority Built New York / by Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961-, Nelles, Jen, 1979-

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Mobilizing the Metropolis : How the Port Authority Built New York / by Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961-, Nelles, Jen, 1979-

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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

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Voices in the Band : A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful / by Ball, Susan C., 1957-

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