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Timothy R. Mahoney
Finally, the book that unmasks the insider behind the shocking corruption in St. Paul in the 1930s: Big Tom Brown, the city’s chief of police.
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This book analyzes, with unprecedented breadth and coverage, the development, maturation, growth, and sudden decline of a distinctive, regional urban economic system that developed along the upper Mississippi River north…
Timothy R. Mahoney (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Provincial Lives tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West.
By grounding them in their hometown ethos, and understanding how the Panic of 1857 and the subsequent recession undermined their lives, the author provides important insights into how the middle…
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Provincial Lives, first published in 1999, tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West.
Kurt E. Kinbacher
Examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups - Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese - that settled in enclaves in Lincoln, Nebraska…
Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essays makes clear that cultivating regionalism lies at the…
Laura Westra,Thomas M. Robinson
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