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    The People of Hamilton, Canada West

    Michael B Katz

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    The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State

    Michael B. Katz

    This updated edition of Michael B. Katz’s seminal work, The Price of Citizenship, traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs through the war on poverty and…

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    Why Don’t American Cities Burn?

    Michael B. Katz

    Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.

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    The Underclass Debate: Views from History

    A collection of essays, which focus not on individual and family behavior but on a complex set of processes that have been at work over a long period, degrading the…

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    Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the Underclass, and Urban Schools as History

    Michael B. Katz

    Why have American governments proved unable to redesign a welfare system that will satisfy anyone? Are there constructive ways to think about welfare, poverty, and public education? This book shows…

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    Reconstructing American Education

    Michael B. Katz

    One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among democracy…

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    The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City

    Michael B Katz

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    The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City

    Michael B Katz

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    In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America

    Michael B. Katz

    An examination of the origins of public and private social welfare, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of the homeless, explaining why such a highly…

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    Public Education Under Siege

    Public Education Under Siege argues for a democratic and egalitarian alternative to the test-driven, market-oriented core of current education reform. These short, jargon-free essays cover public policy, teacher unions, economic…

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    W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy

    There is unanimity among these historians and sociologists in ascribing seminal importance to The Philadelphia Negro. -David Levering Lewis, Journal of American History

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    One Nation Divisible: What America Wants and What it is Becoming

    Michael B. Katz,Mark J. Stern

    American society today is hardly recognizable from what it was a century ago. Integrated schools, an information economy, and independently successful women are just a few of the remarkable changes…

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    The Undeserving Poor: America’s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised

    Michael B. Katz (Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania)

    The Undeserving Poor is a history of the ideas that underlie America’s enduring confrontation with poverty. The book shows that poverty remains a national disgrace in part because of the…

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    The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism

    Michael B Katz,Mark J Stern (University of Pennsylvania),Michael B Doucet

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    The Making of Urban America

    This study traces urban development from the pre-industrial city to the 20th-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate…

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    The Making of Urban America

    This study traces urban development from the pre-industrial city to the 20th-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate…

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